The file

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Independent · Secretary of Health and Human Services · Spectrum score +7

Cabinet ·

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is Secretary of Health and Human Services. Political positions and ideology score +7 (Center). The Sunday-show fight is vaccines.

College: Harvard College, B.A. 1976 · University of Virginia School of Law, J.D. 1982 · Pace University, LL.M. 1987
Spouse: Cheryl Hines (m. 2014). Previously Emily Black, Mary Richardson Kennedy (d. 2012)
Children: Six
Résumé: Secretary of Health and Human Services · 2025–
Environmental attorney · Waterkeeper Alliance / private practice · 1986–2024

Net worth: $18.0M
Salary: $253,100
Before office: $15.0M
2026 raised: —
Years in office: 1

Where Robert stands on the spectrum

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. scores +7 on Spectrum’s left–right line (center), mixed on economic issues and mixed on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +7 · Center · economic +6 · social +6 · authoritarian -2

Confidence 80. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

The Sunday-show fight is vaccines. The file is a plaintiff lawyer with a famous name now holding the agencies he sued — a reversal so complete that both parties pretend it is only about Twitter. Watch the advisory committees and the family trust, not the pressers.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$18.0M

+20% since taking office

Candidate / OGE-style estimate, 2025

Before office$15.0M

Now$18.0M

Kennedy family trusts, legal fees from environmental suits, and the 2024 campaign book. HHS is the conflict, not the cash.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $0
Cash on hand: $0

Top industries

Family trusts
Legal fees
Books

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

Family trusts and legal fees. HHS is the conflict, not a biotech trading desk — which is the other problem.

OGE-style, 2025 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

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Kennedy family trusts
Trust
$5.0M–$15.0M
VTI
Diversified funds
Trust
$1.0M–$5.0M

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
—	Kennedy family trusts	Trust	$5.0M–$15.0M
VTI	Diversified funds	Trust	$1.0M–$5.0M

Sum of ranges $6.0M–$20.0M · midpoint $13.0M

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

Polymarket · Kalshi

Implied probability from open contracts. Real money, not a poll. Updates while you sit here.

Live wire

Live · checked just now

New articles land here as they publish. Checking about every 12 seconds.

Conflicts

Runs HHS after a career litigating and campaigning against the agencies under him.
Family fortune as a hedge while preaching capture by pharma.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +6
Social: +6
Authoritarian: -2
Confidence: 80

Taxes & spending+6
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+12
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+24
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation-20
Stronger antitrust, labor, and consumer rules
Labor & wages+8
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+14
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion-16
Legal access, opposed to bans
Guns+26
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+20
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+8
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+18
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties-16
Privacy, speech, limits on surveillance and bans

No roll-call first dimension on file — issues only.

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

2024 campaign
HHS 2025–26
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.