During a press briefing on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about the FDA withdrawing its ban on menthol cigarettes while HHS Secretary RFK Jr. appears poised to announce a ban on common food dyes.
00:00A question about this upcoming announcement from HHS to ban food dyes. During the first week of the administration, the FDA announced that it's pulling its plan to ban menthol cigarettes. So two questions for you. How do you square a ban on menthol cigarettes being pulled and then announcing this ban on food dyes? And then how does the president feel about this upcoming ban that RFK is going to announce?
00:22Sure. Look, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the president nominated him because he trusts him to make this country healthy again. It's not just a slogan. It really is a movement that has broken ground across the country. There's millions of people who believe in RFK Jr., Secretary Kennedy and what he's doing. I won't don't want to get ahead of HHS with this historic announcement later and the details of it. But obviously, the secretary feels that he has reason and evidence to announce the ban on artificial dyes later. And I'll let him speak to that this afternoon. Phil.
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