Far as he was from Washington, D.C., as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hiked to the top of a towering sandstone arch in rural Arizona with a group of Navajo Nation leaders, the impact of his agency’s cuts reached farther.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has given his first network television interview since becoming health secretary to Dr. Jon LaPook. They talked, among other things, about the impact of cutting thousands of jobs at federal health agencies and the high cost of some of the most popular prescription drugs.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he wasn’t aware of cuts to infectious disease and addiction research in a CBS interview that aired Wednesday morning. When asked about $11 billion in proposed cuts to local and state programs by the Trump administration,