Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday he's on track to identify "interventions" that are "certainly causing autism" and possible ways of addressing them by September.
In April, Kennedy vowed to find the cause of growing rates of autism, calling it an "epidemic" that "dwarfs the COVID epidemic."
President Trump asked Kennedy for a progress update during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, saying, "The autism is such a tremendous horror show. What's happening in our country and some other countries, but mostly our country. How are you doing?"
"We are doing very well," Kennedy responded. "We will have announcements as promised in September, finding interventions, certain interventions, now that are clearly almost certainly causing autism. And we're going to be able to address those