Trump Rejects Post For Anti-LGBTQ Project 2025 Author
Politico reports:
Donald Trump’s transition team has rejected a push to install a prominent Project 2025 author in a senior role at the Department of Health and Human Services over concerns that his strident anti-abortion views would prove too controversial.
Anti-abortion groups had been lobbying Trump’s HHS secretary nominee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to select Roger Severino, a longtime anti-abortion stalwart, as the department’s deputy secretary.
The installation of Severino, director of HHS’ Office for Civil Rights during the first Trump administration, was aimed at allaying some of the groups’ concerns about Kennedy’s abortion record.
Read the full article. As was reported here on multiple occasions, Severino worked to rescind LGBTQ civil rights protections during Trump’s first term.
He last appeared here in January 2023 when it was reported
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