JD Vance hails Trump admin's 'bulldozer' approach to public health, discusses how Appalachia was 'left behind'

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Vice President JD Vance praised President Donald Trump’s "bulldozer" approach to public health, calling it a necessary force that "just had to happen," during remarks at Wednesday’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) summit. The summit, held at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington D.C., was centered around Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 's MAHA movement — aimed at improving nutrition, eliminating toxins, preserving natural habitats and fighting the chronic disease epidemic in the U.S. "That is a that is a good summary of Donald J. Trump is that he takes a bulldozer to Overton windows every single day," Vance told the HHS secretary during the event. "It just had to happen… One of the criticisms that Bobby will always get, and I always think it's such b-------, excuse my language… [is that] sometimes there's this attack where people say that conclusion is not supported by the science, or this or that conclusion is a conspiracy theory." "Science, as practiced in its best form, is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it, and you ought to argue against it. You can't shut down the debate," Vance continued. "If you look at all the big public health debates that we've had in this country over the last 20 or 30 years… they tried to silence the people who were saying things that were outside the Overton window. As we found out the hard way over the last few years, it was very often that people who were outside the Overton window were actually right, and all the experts were wrong." TRUMP WILL MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN WITH AN UNLIKELY COALITION Vance went on to say the country could not advance unless Americans become comfortable with people who are "willing to challenge orthodoxy." He also vowed to keep Appalachia in the forefront of the conversation, noting residents have higher premature mortality rates due to a long history of being failed by the public health system . "You know what really pisses people of…