Sen Sanders hopes to phase out RFK JR after CDC director fires vaccine policy

I-Vt. Senator Bernie Sanders demands Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. Several senior CDC officials resigned after leaving the agency.

The Trump administration announced earlier this week that she refused Kennedy’s instructions to adopt new restrictions on some vaccines less than a month after she was confirmed, including for a month after she was confirmed.

Four other CDC officials resigned after Monarez’s removal, noting in part the anti-vaccine policy promoted by Kennedy. Hundreds of workers at the agency also walked out of the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta to support their former colleagues.

In response to the departure, Sanders wrote in the New York Times that Kennedy was “inhibition of the health of the current and future American people” and accused the secretary of firing Monares for refusing to “act as a rubber stamp for his dangerous policies.”

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“Despite overwhelming opposition from the medical community, Secretary Kennedy has been long-standing advocacy for vaccines and advocacy for conspiracy theories that have been repeatedly rejected by science experts,” Sanders wrote in an article published on Saturday.

“It’s ridiculous to say that in 2025, but the vaccine is safe and effective,” he added. “Of course, this is not only my point of view. More importantly, it’s an overwhelming consensus among the medical and scientific communities.”

Sanders It also pointed out that disease vaccines such as Polio and Covid-19 have saved hundreds of millions of lives around the world.

Sanders, a member of the Senate Health Committee, opposed Kennedy’s confirmation earlier this year. The secretary was sworn in in February. After Monarez’s termination, HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill was elected as acting director of the CDC.

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Sanders said Kennedy “is jeopardizing the health of the American people now and in the future.” (Reuters/Pedro Lazaro Fernandez)

Trump administration defends Monares’ removal with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt The president has the right to “fire those who do not meet the task”, said Thursday.

“President and Secretary Kennedy has been committed to strengthening our public health system and restoring it to the core mission of protecting Americans from infectious diseases to prevent, detect and respond to future threats, to restore our public health system and to the core of protecting Americans.

Sanders called for an investigation into Monares’ recall earlier this week, criticizing the move as “reckless” and “dangerous”.

In a special editor, he wrote that Kennedy “profits from sowing distrustful causes on vaccines and establishes a career,” he added that the secretary now “uses his powers to launch a full-scale war on science, public health and the truth itself.” He also said it will become increasingly difficult to get a “life-saving vaccine” with Kennedy’s leading HHS.

The Trump administration announced earlier this week that it had removed Susan Monarez, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

“The danger here is that the disease that has actually been eliminated will reappear and cause huge harm due to a safe and effective vaccine,” Sanders wrote.

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“Secretary Kennedy is putting American lives at risk and he must resign,” Sanders wrote. “Instead, President Trump must listen to doctors and scientists and nominate health secretary and CDC director who will protect the health and well-being of the American people rather than enforcing dangerous policies based on conspiracy theory.”

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Reuters contributed to the report.