Health Minister rfk Jr. quotes father during defense of CDC Chaphup

Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) conducted a dramatic course correction at the CDC a few days before the hearing, which was in a government report Decided to fire CDC director Susan Monarez. Monarez’s firing has sparked strong opposition from Democrats, complaining that the government’s efforts to reform the CDC, including through staff and budget cuts, are politicizing public health and undermining scientific integrity.

“Central Disease Control and Prevention people supervision [the COVID-19 mitigation] Kennedy said in his opening speech: “After a brief interruption of Heckler at the hearing, the process of wearing a mask was to close the children at our school and they were about to leave. People who can and are willing to draw new courses. ”

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“As my father Once said, ‘Progress is a good word, but change is the driving force behind it. The health secretary, who is also the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, continued: “That’s why we need new blood at the CDC.”

On Thursday’s brief moment, Kennedy cited his father’s shot when he was a U.S. Senator in 1968, not the first time the Kennedy family has been cited in the health secretary’s method of rule. Robert F. Kennedy ahead of President Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory Criticize him for supporting Trump and “desecrat[ing] and Trampl[ing] And set[ting] Fire” memory of father.

RFK Jr.’s father’s quote comes from his speech at the U.S. Mayors’ Conference in Chicago in 1963. When he served as Attorney General under former Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson, the remarks were made when he served as Attorney General.

Kennedy’s speech in Chicago discussed contemporary economic pressures and poverty in the early 1960s, noting that they led to “unnecessary stocks of idle youth.” The lawyer general at the time believed that this problem exacerbated the problem due to the ongoing education, vocational training and poor housing.

Robert F. Kennedy saw the award from former President Robert F. Kennedy on Capitol Hill and his brother Robert F. Kennedy. (Getty Image)

“The most difficult task is to appoint and incorporate a group of men and women who are capable and willing to see the difficulties of our community, dissect them, criticize areas of shortcomings and make meaningful suggestions,” Kennedy said in a speech to the mayor’s meeting. “Sometimes, it’s also difficult to accept such suggestions. Sometimes, it announces or hints at criticism of plans that have failed us in the past. Change means that someone’s professional feathers will be messed up, the tabletop on the glass may be moved to another office or abandoned office or abandoned, and the pet plan may die.”

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Kennedy continued: “Progress is a good word we like to use. But change is its driving force. Change has enemies,” Kennedy continued. “The willingness to face this change will determine that we will really make sense for young people and our efforts.”

Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), defended the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on September 4, 2025. (Wi McNamee/Getty Images)

Leaded by Jr. RFK in the CDC reshuffle, more than 1,000 current and former federal health officials wrote a letter this week asking the HHS secretary to resign and considered him “dangerous”.[ing] Monarez Public health.

Meanwhile, Kennedy wrote expert Earlier this week, he responded to his Thursday speech on Capitol Hill in the Wall Street Journal that changes in the CDC are recovering confidence in an institution that has lost public trust due to its response to the Covid-19-19 virus.

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“Most of the employees ranked by CDC are honest civil servants,” the Health Minister wrote. “Under this new mission, they can do the job of scientists without succumbing to politics.”