Overview

• After her June dismissal, deputy policy aide Hannah Anderson accidentally backed into Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vehicle as she left HHS, according to the accounts.
• The minor crash surfaced in a Wall Street Journal examination of infighting within the Make America Healthy Again effort.
• In July, FDA vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad was forced out under pressure attributed to influencer Laura Loomer and later returned after appeals by Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.
• Last week, CDC head Susan Monarez resigned following clashes with Kennedy, and the White House said she was not aligned with the president’s agenda.
• Anderson and then–Chief of Staff Heather Flick Melanson were removed in a June leadership shakeup, and Anderson previously led the Center for a Healthy America at the America First Policy Institute.