Calley Means, a former adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said he resigned from the Trump administration over alleged internal corruption, Axios reported. According to that report, Means attributed the alleged conduct to a "concentrated group of people."
Axios reported that Means left the administration two weeks before the midterm elections. The outlet said Means is one of the first former administration members to speak out, but the text available for this report does not say what the others have said or whether they have made similar allegations.
Axios placed the timing in the context of the midterms, describing the elections as having seen the Republican Party engulfed by a blue wave. The available summary does not show whether Means linked his departure to that election result.
The available Axios summary does not identify the specific conduct Means alleged, the people he described as part of the group, or any response from the White House or the Department of Health and Human Services. The report was written by Julianna Bragg, and no other outlet's coverage of the matter was included in the source material for this story, so the account rests on that single report.
Where Means's account and any official account may differ, the sources here offer only Means's assertions as reported by Axios. Axios published the report on Friday, November 6, 2026.
Sources: Axios: Ex-RFK Jr. adviser says Trump admin corruption prompted resignation.