Not even the top Republican in the Senate would recommend turning to the Trump administration’s Health Secretary for medical advice.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune encouraged women to take Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s words with a grain of salt after the Health Secretary and President Donald Trump made bizarre claims linking pregnant women’s Tylenol use to autism.

“I think that if I were a woman, I’d be talking to my doctor and not taking, you know, advice from RFK or any other government bureaucrat for that matter,” he told MSNBC’s Ali Vitali on Wednesday.

The Health Department did not immediately return a request for comment on Thursday.

Thune made the remark after Vitali asked him if the Republican Party had become “a party of no dissent.”

“No, and I don’t think that’s true,” he resp

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