INGRAHAM: But Secretary Kennedy has his work cut out for him because there's a lot of wasteful spending that needs to be rooted out. For example, according to the New York Post, the HHS spent $22 billion for illegals from 2020 through 2024. This, at the same time, they lost track of only 32,000 migrant kids.
Here to discuss all of this and more, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Mr. Secretary, thank you so much for joining us. Great to see you.
ROBERT KENNEDY JR., HHS SECRETARY: Thank you for having me, Laura.
INGRAHAM: INGRAHAM: Before we get into the priorities on day one, you talked about prayer today in the Oval Office with all of those paintings from Reagan to Andrew Jackson to Abraham Lincoln, Washington all around you. Why did you go to that moment?
KENNEDY JR.: Well, you know, I think it's relevant because we're not just in a health crisis, but we're in a spiritual crisis and those things are connected. And you know, so many times during my campaign, traveling across the country, I sense that that people are feeling disconnected. You have a whole generation of kids that feel alienated, dispossessed. They are in an existential crisis, not only because their health is, you know, 77 percent of our kids can't qualify for military service. There is a purpose in their lives and no sense of usefulness or effectiveness or connectedness to their communities. And that drives also the chronic disease epidemic, and the epidemics we're seeing of depression, of suicide, of alcoholism, of drug addiction. I think we have to address all of those things at the same time. We can't just say we're going to make you physically healthy. We have to --
INGRAHAM: That's a tall order.
KENNEDY JR.: Yes, well, I think, you know, we all have to learn. You know, we need to get up in the morning and not think about, what am I going to do to make myself happy today? We have to get up and say, what am I going to do to make myself useful today, to be useful to my friends, to my family, to my community and that paradoxically is ultimately the path to happiness connected this, you get from, from doing, you know, from doing good things, from being of service to others.
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