the system is on the wrong track;

Calley Means, Special Government Employee for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., delivered a scorched-earth takedown of legacy media and Big Pharma-aligned lobbyists during POLITICO’s 2025 Health Care Summit.

While Politico’s White House Bureau Chief Dasha Burns attempted to grill Means over bold and long-overdue cuts to HHS bureaucracy, Means turned the tables—calling out the corruption, failure, and collusion that has plagued America’s so-called health authorities for decades.

The scene unfolded as Burns pressed Means on the Trump administration’s bold move to slash a quarter of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) 82,000-strong workforce.

These cuts, targeting what conservatives see as wasteful offices obsessed with vaccine dogma, drug research boondoggles, and woke pet projects like AI and rural mental health, have left the left clutching their pearls.

Burns, parroting the left’s predictable talking points, fretted about “drug safety” and “pandemic preparedness,” as if more government bureaucrats are the answer to America’s woes.

“I’d say to the reporters in the room and the lobbyists in the room, I mean, obviously make your case, but I truly ask for, as you’re making it, a little bit of humility about what the voters were trying to say by putting Bobby Kennedy Jr. in this position of power. I would ask for a little bit of humility to ask why Bobby Kennedy, along with President Trump, are the two most popular political figures in America by far,” Means said.

“What the voters are trying to say, and I think they were right, is that the system is really on the wrong track,” he added.......more.........