RFK JR accused of launching CDC director on vaccine pressure

Secretary of Health and Public Services (HHS) Robert Kennedy Jr. His former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is charged with vaccine recommendations.

Kennedy Make America healthy again (Maha) was on the campaign last year.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Facing the Senate panel after CDC turmoil

But the recent sacking of former CDC director Susan Monarez and the Exodus of several senior officials, as well as Kennedy’s perception of the vaccine, has caused turmoil in the CDC and become a focus on both sides, which has led to both sides’ unrest. Senate Republicans and Democrats on the panel.

At the start of the hearing between Kennedy and Sen. Ron Wyden, top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee accused Monarez of a recent Wall Street Journal Opinion article.

Monarez was confirmed by the Senate and fired in her specialized charges and was charged in a meeting with the secretary last month that she was forced to resign or fired and ordered to “book” to pre-sign the vaccine consultation panel’s recommendations), which are new, with new fills in with people who have been publicly expressed against the anti-vaccincine Rhetoric. ”

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Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore). (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Wyden questioned whether Kennedy did tell Monarez “even if she thinks this advice is consistent with scientific evidence?”

“Yes or no? You have a chance to call her a liar. If you say you don’t, do it.” “But I want to see you respond to that.”

“No,” Kennedy said. “No, I didn’t say it to her. And I’ve never had a private meeting with her.”

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Susan Monarez testified at a June confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee on June 25, 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Kennedy earlier argued at the hearing that he fired Monarez and the full CDC vaccine recommendation team to restore the CDC to the “gold standard” of health care.

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“The United States has 4.2% of the world’s population. But, we have nearly 20% of Kuved’s deaths. We actually do worse than any country in the world. People at the CDC are responsible for the people who oversee the process, they wear masks on our children, and those who close our schools are the ones who are going to leave,” Kennedy said. “That’s why we need new leadership from the CDC with bold, competent and creative.”

“People can and are willing to draw new lessons,” he continued. “As my father once said, ‘Progress is a good word, [but] Change [is a] Exciter. Change has its enemies. “That’s why we need to do new blood on the CDC.”