Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who had polio as a child, says any of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees seeking Senate confirmation should “steer clear” of efforts to discredit the polio vaccine.

Mitch McConnell took an apparent swipe at Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after reports that one of his top allies petitioned the FDA to withdraw polio vaccine.

"Anyone seeking the Senate’s consent to serve in the incoming Administration would do well to steer clear of" such efforts, the polio survivor stated Friday.