Bernie Sanders calls for RFK Jr. to resign as HHS secretary over vaccine policies: ‘Rally the American people’
MANCHESTER N H Sen Bernie Sanders of Vermont says if Robert F Kennedy Jr doesn't step down as Healthcare and Human Services secretary in President Donald Trump's administration Americans will need to speak out We've got to rally the American people This is a huge issue Sanders stated Fox News Digital on Monday Sanders the ranking member of the Senate's Strength Learning Labor and Pensions Committee mentioned I'm not a scientist I'm not a clinician but I do talk to scientists and I do talk to doctors and the evidence is overwhelming It's not contestable Vaccines work They save millions and millions of lives WHY BERNIE SANDERS IS CALLING ON RFK JR TO RESIGNAnd the progressive champion and and Democratic presidential nomination runner-up warned that if Kennedy and his friends are able to make people think that vaccines are not safe it will be a real population healthcare predicament for America Sanders is among a growing list of politicians and representatives who warn that Kennedy the longtime environmental activist and vaccine skeptic who Trump picked late last year as his robustness secretary in his second administration is jeopardizing the healthcare of Americans with his controversial moves BIPARTISAN FURY AT CDC SENATORS DEMAND PROBE REJECT VACCINE GUIDANCE AS ILLEGITIMATE Mr Kennedy and the rest of the Trump administration tell us over and over that they want to Make America Healthy Again That s a great slogan I agree with it The complication is that since coming into office President Trump and Mr Kennedy have done exactly the opposite Sanders wrote this past weekend in an opinion piece in the New York Times And Sanders announced that despite the overwhelming opposition of the diagnostic locality Secretary Kennedy has continued his longstanding crusade against vaccines and his advocacy of conspiracy theories that have been rejected repeatedly by scientific experts Sanders' call for Kennedy to resign came after last week's firing of Centers for Illness Control CDC Director Susan Monarez less than a month after she was substantiated The firing of Monarez came after she refused Kennedy's directives to adopt new limitations on the availability of specific vaccines including approvals for COVID- vaccines Four other top CDC bureaucrats resigned in protest hours later accusing the Trump administration and Kennedy of weaponizing constituents healthcare CDC DIRECTOR SUSAN MONAREZ REFUSES TO BE FIRED AS OTHER OFFICERS CALL IT QUITSSanders who was interviewed Monday after headlining the New Hampshire AFL-CIO's annual Labor Day breakfast charged in his report over the weekend that Kennedy has absurdly claimed that there s no vaccine that is safe and effective' Who supports Secretary Kennedy s views Sanders sought Not credible scientists and doctors One of his leading experts that he cites to back up his bogus indicates on autism and vaccines had his biological license revoked and his review retracted from the curative journal that published it The situation received rare bipartisan pushback by specific members of Congress But the White House defended the firing of Monarez with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt telling reporters on Thursday that the president has the authority to fire those who are not aligned with his mission The president and Secretary Kennedy are committed to restoring trust and transparency and credibility to the CDC by ensuring their leadership and their decisions are more public-facing more accountable strengthening our masses medical system and restoring it to its core mission of protecting Americans from communicable diseases investing in innovation to prevent detect and respond to future threats Leavitt argued Fox News Bonny Chu and Landon Mion contributed to this story
