Calley Means, a close aide to US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., quit his role as a senior adviser in the Trump administration on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported, according to Reuters reporting published on Oct. 22. Means told the newspaper he had quit, Reuters said.

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Means was particularly active in the Kennedy-led 'Make America Healthy Again' movement, Reuters reported. He was significantly frustrated by White House delays of some of Kennedy's most popular policy ideas and blamed others in the administration for allowing food companies and special interests to have too much sway, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Those are the Journal's attributed accounts of his reasons, not a statement issued by Means himself in the Reuters report.

The Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment, Reuters said. The Washington Examiner's news listing on Oct. 22 also carried the development, describing Means as a senior White House adviser affiliated with the Make America Healthy Again movement who quit on Thursday following food policy disputes.

Role and family note in the reports

Means stepped into a permanent role as senior adviser supporting food and nutrition policy in November last year, after serving as an adviser in the Trump White House from March to October as a special government employee, Reuters reported. His sister, Casey Means, also a key ally of Secretary Kennedy, had her nomination for US surgeon general withdrawn by President Donald Trump earlier this year, Reuters said.