Former Trump HHS official tapped to become RFK Jr.’s chief of staff: report

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has tapped Harmet Dhillon, a former top health official from Trump’s first administration and top Trump confidante, to be Health and Human Services secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as chief of staff. A new report indicated Monday.

Heather Flick, an attorney who served in various senior roles at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) during the first Trump administration, has been working closely with Kennedy over the past few weeks as her unofficial chief of staff. According to Politico. The newspaper added Monday that she had been tapped by Trump’s transition team to fill the role permanently, according to four sources familiar with the matter. The announcement has not been made public yet.

Meanwhile, the law firm that currently employs Flick and the founder took to their social media accounts this week to congratulate him on his new job. Fox News Digital reached out to the Trump-Vance transition team for confirmation but did not hear back by press time.

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Flick’s selection to serve in the second Trump administration is the latest in a long list of Trump loyalists to be given jobs in the administration during his second term. When Flick first joined the Trump administration, she served as HHS chief adviser, acting secretary of administration and eventually senior adviser to current HHS secretary Alex Azar.

Before first joining HHS, Flick was an attorney at the Dhillon Law Group founded by Dillon, whom Trump tapped to become his assistant attorney general.

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Dhillon has represented clients in major conservative civil rights cases and defended Trump supporters in court. She challenged Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home orders during the outbreak, and in 2018 In 2020, she served as co-chair of Lawyers for Trump, a group of conservative lawyers supporting Trump during the 2020 election. Most recently, Dillon helped lead Trump’s election integrity team in Arizona during the 2024 election.

“Heather Flick is excellent and will soon be assisting Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,” former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn wrote in a post on X after news of Flick’s new role.

Flick’s appointment comes at a time when Kennedy allies say they may push an agenda that doesn’t entirely align with Trump’s world but centers on Kennedy’s priorities, Politico reported.

A potential H.H.S. The secretary has recently been taking meetings with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to drum up support. Democrats and Republicans have both been highly critical of the HHS secretary-designate’s views on vaccines, while Republicans have been questioning Kennedy’s views on abortion in the past election polls.

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Kennedy’s critics have questioned his ability to deal with major crises like the COVID-19 pandemic and have pointed out that Kennedy pushes conspiracy theories about things like vaccines and anti-depressants. Meanwhile, business leaders say there is reason to be concerned about Kennedy’s past claims about the dangers of food additives, pesticides and vaccines.

Flick will be responsible for helping Kennedy clear up some of these criticisms. A former Food and Drug Administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to speak with Politico, told Politico that H.H.S. Depending on how involved writers are in the agency’s work, their chief of staff may be “too involved.”

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“In really high-profile things, if she’s an effective chief of staff, she can be very involved,” the former official added. “I’ve certainly seen this happen in multiple administrations.”