{"id":31885,"date":"2025-09-02T00:03:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T00:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=31885"},"modified":"2025-09-02T00:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T00:03:32","slug":"bernie-sanders-calls-for-rfk-jr-to-resign-as-hhs-secretary-over-vaccine-policies-rally-the-american-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=31885","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders calls for RFK Jr. to resign as HHS secretary over vaccine policies: \u2018Rally the American people\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

. \u2013 Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont says if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn\u2019t step down as Health and Human Services secretary in President Donald Trump\u2019s administration, Americans will need to speak out.
\n\u2018We\u2019ve got to rally the American people. This is a huge issue,\u2019 Sanders told Fox News Digital on Monday.
\nSanders, the ranking member of the Senate\u2019s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said \u2018I\u2019m not a scientist, I\u2019m not a doctor, but I do talk to scientists, and I do talk to doctors, and the evidence is overwhelming. It\u2019s not contestable. Vaccines work. They save millions and millions of lives.\u2019<\/p>\n

And the progressive champion and 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential nomination runner-up warned that \u2018if Kennedy and his friends are able to make people think that vaccines are not safe, it will be a real public health crisis for America.\u2019
\nSanders is among a growing list of politicians and officials who warn that Kennedy, the longtime environmental activist and vaccine skeptic who Trump picked late last year as his health secretary in his second administration, is jeopardizing the health of Americans with his controversial moves.<\/p>\n

\u2018Mr Kennedy and the rest of the Trump administration tell us, over and over, that they want to Make America Healthy Again. That\u2019s a great slogan. I agree with it. The problem is that since coming into office, President Trump and Mr Kennedy have done exactly the opposite,\u2019 Sanders wrote this past weekend in an opinion piece in the New York Times.
\nAnd Sanders said that \u2018despite 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.\u2019
\nSanders\u2019 call for Kennedy to resign came after last week\u2019s firing of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Susan Monarez, less than a month after she was confirmed. The firing of Monarez came after she refused Kennedy\u2019s directives to adopt new limitations on the availability of some vaccines, including approvals for COVID-19 vaccines.
\nFour other top CDC officials resigned in protest hours later, accusing the Trump administration and Kennedy of weaponizing public health.<\/p>\n

Sanders, who was interviewed Monday after headlining the New Hampshire AFL-CIO\u2019s annual Labor Day breakfast, charged in his statement over the weekend that Kennedy \u2018has absurdly claimed that \u2018there\u2019s no vaccine that is safe and effective\u2019.\u2019
\n\u2018Who supports Secretary Kennedy\u2019s views?\u2019 Sanders asked. \u2018Not credible scientists and doctors. One of his leading \u2018experts\u2019 that he cites to back up his bogus claims on autism and vaccines had his medical license revoked and his study retracted from the medical journal that published it.\u2019
\nThe incident received rare bipartisan pushback by some members of Congress.
\nBut the White House defended the firing of Monarez, with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt telling reporters on Thursday that the president has the \u2018authority to fire those who are not aligned with his mission.\u2019\u00a0
\n\u2018The president and Secretary Kennedy are committed to restoring trust and transparency and credibility to the CDC by ensuring their leadership and their decisions are more public-facing, more accountable, strengthening our public health system and restoring it to its core mission of protecting Americans from communicable diseases, investing in innovation to prevent, detect and respond to future threats,\u2019 Leavitt argued.
\nFox News Bonny Chu and Landon Mion contributed to this story<\/p>\n

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