Oct 22 (Reuters) – Calley Means, a close aide to US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., quit his role as a senior adviser in the Trump administration on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Means, who has been particularly active in the Kennedy-led “Make America Healthy Again,” told the newspaper he had quit.
Means was significantly frustrated by White House delays of some of Kennedy’s most popular policy ideas and blamed others in the administration for allowing food companies and special interests to have too much sway, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
The Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
He stepped into a permanent role as senior adviser supporting food and nutrition policy in November last year. Before that, he served as an adviser in the Trump White House from March to October as a special government employee.
His sister, Casey Means, also a key ally of Health Secretary Kennedy, had her nomination for US surgeon general withdrawn by President Donald Trump earlier this year.
(Reporting by Christy Santhosh and Sneha S K in Bengaluru; Editing by Leroy Leo and Tasim Zahid)
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