Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at a health roundtable in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday that his department will at some point begin withholding HHS funding for medical schools that do not have nutrition programs.

"One of the things we're doing now with medical schools is there's almost no medical schools that have nutrition courses, and so they're taught how to treat illnesses with drugs but not how to treat them with food or to keep people healthy so they don't need the drugs. There's other gaps in their training that we're going to address," said Kennedy, who does not have a medical degree or formal training. br/>
"But one the things that we'll do over the next year is to announce that medical schools that don't have those programs are not going to be eligible for our funding and that we will withhold funds from those who don't implement those kinds of courses," he added.

HHS has not responded to ABC News' request for comment about the proposal.

-ABC News' Michael Pappano and Will McDuffie

President Donald Trump signed multiple executive orders related to education Wednesday afternoon in the Oval Office, including one that charges departments with enforcing laws that require that American colleges and universities disclose when they receive foreign gifts.

"There are currently laws on the books requiring certain disclosures of universities when they accept large foreign gifts," White House staff secretary Will Scharf said while presenting the president with the executive order. "We believe that certain universities, including, for example, Harvard, have routinely violated this law and this law has not been effectively enforced."

Among the group of educational executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on Wednesday was one that charged the Department of Education with reviewing school accreditation processes

"I think that gets to your policy, sir, of meritocracy -- that we should be looking at those who have real merit to get in," Education Secretary Linda McMahon said before Trump signed the order.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that President Donald Trump's patience with Ukraine-Russia negotiations is "running very thin."

"And unfortunately, President Zelenskyy has been trying to litigate this peace … negotiation in the press, and that's unacceptable to the president. These should be closed door negotiations," Leavitt continued.

Responding to Trump's earlier criticism over Ukraine refusing to legally recognize the occupation of Crimea, Zelenskyy said in a statement that "Ukraine will always act in accordance with its Constitution and we are absolutely sure that our partners in particular the USA will act in line with its strong decisions."

– ABC News' Kelsey Walsh, Hannah Demissie, and Selina Wang