Sen Berney Sanders (I-VT.) Robert F., Secretary, Health and Human Services (HHS). Kennedy is putting pressure on Junior. Top officer departure After the director of the agency was after Dishonor,
Sanders, a member of the rankings of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension (HELP) Committee, said that he agrees to make the public “healthy” with President Trump and Kennedy, but warned that the problem has been “the opposite since coming to the office president Trump and Mr. Kennedy.”
Sanders wrote in an up-ed for the New York Times, “Despite the heavy opposition from the medical community, Secretary Kennedy has continued advocating his prolonged crusade and conspiracy principles against the vaccine, which have been repeatedly rejected by scientific experts.” Published Saturday morning.
The Vermont Senator said, “It is absurd to say in 2025, but the vaccines are safe and effective. It is, of course, not only my idea,” said Vermont Senator. “More important, it is a heavy consent of medical and scientific communities.”
The hill has reached HHS for comment.
Sanders’ call to resign Kennedy was fired on Wednesday as CDC director Susan Monarez. His termination pushed four other top officials in the agency to resign later that day, accusing the administration of making public health weapons.
Kennedy and White House have defended Monarez’s firing with the press secretary Say On Thursday, reporters that the President has “the right to set fire to those who do not aligned with their mission.”
“President and Secretary Kennedy is committed to restoring the CDC by ensuring his leadership to restore confidence and transparency and reliability to the CDC and their decisions are more public, more accountable, more accountable, strengthening our public health system and restoring Americans from communicable diseases, restoring their original missions, investing, detection and responding to future threats, in-in-charge,” said the Leavet.
Monarez firing and resignation of officials Hill Mixed reactions on public health community and Capital Hill.
Sanders called On Thursday, the administration received a hammer for a bilateral examination in Monarez’s expulsion, “careless” and “dangerous” decisions.
In the OP-Aid, Sanders criticized Kennedy’s vaccine suspicion and said that “the reality is that Secretary Kennedy has made a career on sowing mistrust in vaccines and now, as the head of HHS, as the head of HHS, he is using his right to start science, on public health and to start a fully developed war on truth.”
The progressive senator argued that it would be “difficult” for Americans to get “lifetime of vaccines” during Kennedy’s tenure at HHS and claimed that former presidential candidates would target the childhood vaccination program.
Sanders wrote, “The danger here is that the diseases that have been almost erased due to safe and effective vaccines will resurve and cause heavy damage.”
Sanders said that America needs to prepare better if another epidemic, such as Kovid -19, breaks and Kennedy’s leadership is “the situation is worse,” referring to HHS termination $ 500 million in federal funding for MRNA vaccine development.
Sanders wrote, “Secretary Kennedy is putting the lives of Americans in danger, and should resign.” “In his place, President Trump should listen to doctors and scientists and nominate a health secretary and a CDC director who will protect the health and welfare of American people, not dangerous policies based on the principles of conspiracy.”
Trump administration Selected Deputy HHS Secretary Jim O’Neel to be the acting director of CDC on Thursday.
