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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. must be right over the target. Big Pharma's most favored U.S. Senator, champagne socialist Bernie Sanders, is calling for RFK, Jr. to resign as HHS Secretary:
Senator Sanders says U.S. Health Secretary Kennedy must resign
By Jonathan Allen - August 30, 2025Aug 30 (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Saturday called on Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign, days after a senior public health official was fired and four others resigned in disputes over Kennedy's unorthodox opposition to vaccines.
Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont who caucuses with Democrats, wrote in a New York Times guest essay, opens new tab that Kennedy is "endangering the health of the American people now and into the future."
This week, Kennedy ousted the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Susan Monarez, less than a month into her tenure, deepening disarray at the nation's main public health agency. Monarez had refused to adopt new limitations on the availability of some vaccines urged by Kennedy, saying they went against scientific evidence.
Four other senior CDC officials resigned in protest, citing anti-vaccine policies and misinformation promoted by Kennedy and his team; hundreds of their colleagues walked out of the CDC's headquarters in Atlanta in support of the departing leaders.
Sanders, the ranking member of the Senate's health committee and an opponent of Kennedy's confirmation earlier this year, wrote that Kennedy ousted Monarez because she refused "to act as a rubber stamp for his dangerous policies."
"Despite the overwhelming opposition of the medical community, Secretary Kennedy has continued his longstanding crusade against vaccines and his advocacy of conspiracy theories that have been rejected repeatedly by scientific experts," Sanders wrote. He said that vaccines for diseases such as polio and COVID-19 had saved hundreds of millions of lives around the world.
A spokesperson for Kennedy did not respond to a request for comment.
Kennedy, a lawyer and prominent anti-vaccine advocate, ran an unsuccessful campaign for the presidency last year. He espouses healthy eating, natural foods and exercise, but also frequently shares his theories about vaccines and other medical issues that many doctors and scientists say are groundless and drawn from the conspiratorial fringe.
On Wednesday, Kennedy baffled doctors when he said he kept seeing children walking through airports that he had diagnosed as "overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, with inflammation," based on their faces and body movements.
President Donald Trump, a Republican, nominated Kennedy to become the health secretary earlier this year and he was sworn in in February. Kennedy emphasized in a congressional hearing in May that he did not think Americans should ever take medical advice from him.
Senator Schumer of New York, seeking to defeat an expected AOC primary challenge, has joined the champagne socialists' calls for the resignation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.:
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5477129-schumer-kennedy-cdc-monarez/
Schumer demands RFK Jr. firing over CDC chaos
By Alexander Bolton - August 29, 2025Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Friday called on President Trump to fire Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, over the ouster of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Susan Monarez and several high-profile resignations.
The termination of Monarez and the resignation of other senior officials has sparked a maelstrom of controversy and a protest of hundreds of people outside the CDC’s Atlanta campus Thursday.
“Donald Trump knew Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be a disastrous pick to lead health care in America and he nominated him anyway. Donald Trump made this mistake and now he must fire RFK Jr. immediately,” Schumer said in a statement
The Senate confirmed Kennedy on a party-line vote in February, with Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and all Democrats voting against him.
“RFK Jr.’s stubborn, pigheaded, and conspiracy-based attacks on proven science are going to make many more people sick and cause more deaths. Americans are in greater danger every day Robert Kennedy Jr. remains as HHS Secretary,” Schumer said.
“By keeping Robert Kennedy in charge of HHS, Trump is doubling down on his own failure. President Trump must admit his mistake and remove Kennedy now,” he added.
Schumer blamed Kennedy last month for failing to respond adequately to the worst measles outbreak in the nation in 33 years.
“Under your tutelage as secretary, you have undermined vaccines, gutted public health funding, and dismantled core federal protections meant to keep Americans safe,” he wrote in a July 11 letter to Kennedy.
Kennedy’s decision this week to fire Monarez, which the White House has backed, came after Kennedy and Monarez battled over rescinding approvals for COVID-19 vaccinations.
It triggered the resignation of several other senior officials, including Demetre Daskalakis, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; Daniel Jernigan, the director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Disease; and Debra Houry, the chief medical officer.
Monarez’s lawyers accused Kennedy of firing her because she refused to “rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts.”
Kennedy defended his decision during an interview on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends.”
“The agency is in trouble, and we need to fix it, and we are fixing it. And it may be that some people should not be working there anymore,” he said.
U.S. Rep. Haley M. Stevens has called for U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign. Rep. Stevens says RFK, Jr. is "...turning away from science at a time when Michiganders need real leadership and real answers...". She knows science well, having received a Bachelor of Arts in political science & philosophy and a Master of Arts in social policy & philosophy, both from American University in Washington, DC. American University's PoliSci department has a reputation of being slightly to the left of Kim Il Sung Political University in Pyongyang.
Rep. Stevens happens to be running for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat against State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, as well as former gubernatorial candidate and public health official Abdul El-Sayed. Rep. Stevens appears to be the first Michigan politician at the federal level to call for RFK, Jr. to resign:
US Rep. Haley Stevens calls for RFK Jr. to resign as HHS Secretary
By Todd Spangler - September 15, 2025U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Birmingham, called on Sept. 15 for U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign.
Stevens, who is running next year for the Democratic nomination to an opening U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, sent out an email saying her demand that Kennedy step down from the Trump administration post is in response to his cutting medical research funding impacting cancer studies and vaccine efficacy.
“Enough is enough. RFK Jr. is creating chaos and turning away from science at a time when Michiganders need real leadership and real answers," Stevens said in the email.
"Michiganders are tired of politicians who chase attention and ignore real problems. I’ve seen enough chaos from this administration and from Secretary Kennedy. He’s making Michiganders unhealthy and unsafe. He needs to resign now," she continued. "It’s time for leaders who fight for science, for health, and for the people, not those who undermine the progress our families and researchers work so hard to achieve.”
In August, Stevens sent a letter to Kennedy calling on him to reverse funding reductions to the National Institutes of Health, including those for cancer research, saying they will harm Americans' health and the economy. Kennedy has denied claims that any "life-saving research" has been abandoned.
Kennedy has increasingly come under scrutiny from Congress in recent weeks following the White House's firing of its own director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention following a policy disagreement with Kennedy and the departure of several other officials from the agency.
Kennedy, who in the past has repeated conspiracy theories regarding vaccine use, has taken criticism for those positions as well as his announcing new restrictions on COVID-19 vaccines, cutting funding for some vaccine development and replacing members of a key vaccine advisory board.
In early September, more than 1,000 current and former employees of the Department of Health and Human Services called for Kennedy to resign. He has given no indication he intends to do so. President Donald Trump has also defended Kennedy's decision-making.
Michigan's U.S. Representative Haley M. Stevens is now drafting articles of impeachment against U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Rep. Stevens launched her campaign for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat in April. This appears to be an effort to outflank the race leader State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, as well as former public health official Abdul El-Sayed in the 2026 Democratic U.S. Senate primary:
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5521385-kennedy-health-care-impeachment/
House Democrat introduces articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
By Joseph Choi - September 25, 2025Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) announced Thursday she would introduce articles of impeachment against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. due to “health care chaos” under his watch.
On social platform X, Stevens wrote, “Health care chaos. Reckless cuts. Rising costs. Michiganders and families across the country are paying the price for RFK Jr.’s agenda. Enough is enough, which is why I’m drafting articles of impeachment against @SecKennedy.”
Stevens has repeatedly called for Kennedy’s removal from his role since he became health secretary.
She called for Kennedy to resign earlier this month, citing the slashing of medical research for pediatric cancer and vaccines.
“Michiganders are tired of politicians who chase attention and ignore real problems. I’ve seen enough chaos from this administration and from Secretary Kennedy,” Stevens said in a statement Sept. 15.
“He’s making Michiganders unhealthy and unsafe. He needs to resign now. It’s time for leaders who fight for science, for health, and for the people, not those who undermine the progress our families and researchers work so hard to achieve.”
The move to impeach Kennedy comes amid federal health policies and recommendations that major medical organizations have spoken out against, including recommendations to alter childhood vaccination schedules and President Trump telling pregnant women not to take Tylenol.
Republican senators are growing increasingly uncomfortable with health actions being taken by the Trump administration, with one lawmaker telling The Hill this week that Republicans are “starting to break ranks” over it.
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