The agency’s ability to hire and retain skilled employees may be in jeopardy given Trump ally Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hostility to civil servants, Califf said. Trump has said he plans to give Kennedy, leader of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, power over health care policy in his administration.

Kennedy Jr. would "clear out" entire departments of the Food and Drug Administration that are “not doing their jobs,” he told MSNBC on Wednesday. “In some categories there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at FDA,

Food and Drug Administration commissioner Robert Califf said he was “disappointed” with the presidential election result and is uncertain about the agency’s future under Donald Trump. “I’m biased, but I feel like the FDA is at peak performance right now and we’ll just see what happens as the new team comes in,

By Jack Phillips Contributing Writer Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who backed President-elect Donald Trump, said Wednesday that the Food and Drug Administration bureaucracy should be winnowed down.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is seeing his star rise after President-elect Trump glided to a second White House victory on Tuesday, a remarkable trajectory for someone who was long dismissed as a fringe political figure.