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1,000+ HHS Employees and Major Medical Groups Urge RFK Jr. to Resign Over CDC Upheaval

A Senate hearing Thursday will scrutinize his overhaul.

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President Donald Trump, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Education Secretary Linda McMahon hold an event for a new Make America Healthy Again Commission report in the White House on May 22.
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Overview

  • An open letter organized by Save HHS and signed by 1,040 current and former employees calls for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign, urging President Trump and Congress to appoint a replacement if he refuses.
  • The demand follows the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez and the resignations of at least four senior CDC officials, with staff citing eroded scientific integrity and safety concerns after the Aug. 8 shooting at CDC headquarters.
  • More than 20 medical associations issued a joint statement calling for Kennedy to step down, and nine former CDC directors warned in an op-ed that his decisions are putting Americans’ health at risk.
  • Kennedy has overhauled vaccine policy by removing all members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and installing vaccine skeptics, while federal COVID-19 vaccine recommendations have been narrowed for some groups.
  • HHS communications director Andrew Nixon defended the reforms as necessary to fix a ‘broken’ CDC, and Kennedy touted a West Texas measles response in a Wall Street Journal op-ed as he prepares to testify before the Senate Finance Committee.