Remove RFK, Jr & demand evidence behind Trump’s MMR order
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I'm asking you to call publicly on President Trump to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the Department of Health and Human Services, and to demand in writing that the President produce the scientific record behind the executive order he signed on August 10. Two questions deserve answers on the record. Which published studies support splitting the MMR vaccine into three shots? Which physicians at CDC or FDA reviewed the order before it was signed? Congress can't fire a secretary, so I'm also asking you to cosponsor the articles of impeachment Rep. Haley Stevens introduced in December and to vote against any HHS funding that pays to carry this order out.
The order tells parents to split the MMR shot and to space childhood immunizations across separate visits. Separate measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines aren't sold in the United States, so a parent who follows the President's instruction can't vaccinate a child against measles at all. The CDC's own website says no published evidence shows any benefit to separating the combination shot. Senator John Barrasso, the Republican whip and an orthopedic surgeon, told Kennedy plainly that he's a doctor and that vaccines work. Senator Bill Cassidy, a physician who chairs the Senate health committee, said cutting the childhood schedule from 18 diseases to 11 would make America sicker. A federal judge blocked those cuts in March. The administration never appealed, and Kennedy wrote new committee rules to work around the ruling anyway.
That's the pattern I want you to answer for. A court says stop, a Republican physician in Senate leadership says the science is settled, and HHS keeps going. The CDC counted 2,465 measles cases as of August 6, the most since 1991, with 93 percent of patients unvaccinated. Two unvaccinated children died in the West Texas outbreak last year. Researchers at the New Mexico Department of Health and the CDC priced one 100-case outbreak at $5.4 million, about $53,000 per case, most of it paid by taxpayers. International reviewers decide in November whether this country still qualifies as having eliminated measles. Please state publicly this week that Kennedy should go, and send the President a written demand for the evidence behind his order.