Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could be on short list for HHS secretary, Trump allies say

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now on a short list being floated by some Trump allies to serve as the next head of the Department of Health and Human Services, multiple people close to the president-elect's campaign say.

Hopes among Kennedy's backers that he could be nominated to lead the department have risen in recent days, after Republicans cemented their majority in the Senate. 

Kennedy's odds of clearing a Senate led by Democrats would have been low, given his long record of what the party called "anti-science, fringe public health stances" that outraged Trump's opponents and a broad array of health experts during the campaign.