I couldn’t agree more with Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA08) on this, as RFK Jr. is literally an insane person, also completely and wildly unqualified to be US Health Secretary, also just a DISASTER for every single American’s health. The problem is, even though Trump MUST fire this psychopathic wackjob, there’s basically zero chance that Trump WILL fire said psychopathic wackjob. So then what? Unfortunately, it almost certainly means that many Americans will get sick needlessly, suffer needlessly, even die needlessly, thanks to Trump’s and RFK Jr.’s vandalism on a mass scale.
Beyer: Trump Must Fire Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
August 28, 2025 (Washington, D.C.) – Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), who serves on the House Committee on Ways and Means, which has jurisdiction over health care, issued the following statement today after Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s attacks on vaccine science and public health prompted the attempted firing of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Susan Monarez and the departures of other key CDC leaders:
“President Trump must fire Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before he further endangers millions of American children, mothers, and families. If Trump does not remove Kennedy before this kook fully unleashes his crackpot conspiracy theories on America’s vaccination efforts, Trump will bear the responsibility for the unnecessary and preventable illnesses and deaths that result.
“Kennedy has already shown that he is incapable of running this agency by his appalling callousness towards the workforce he leads following the recent attack on the CDC. As Dr. Houry, the CDC’s chief medical officer suggested, that attack was inspired by the very anti-vaccine quackery Kennedy and others have peddled.”
“Vaccines are safe, and they are essential to saving lives and ensuring that children are healthy and protected. RFK Jr.’s threat to vaccines represents a clear and present danger to the health and wellbeing of ordinary Americans, and any mentally capable president would recognize that and remove him at once.”
In addition to Director Monarez, other departures of top public health leaders from the CDC in the past 24 hours reportedly include Dr. Debra Houry, CDC chief medical officer; Dr. Jen Layden, Director of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance and Technology; Dr. Daniel Jernigan, Director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; and Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, who published a scathing resignation letter accusing Kennedy of using the “CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.”
After testifying that he would not be “anti-vaccine” during his Senate confirmation hearing, Kennedy fired all members of the CDC Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, and went on to replace them with prominent vaccine skeptics and allies.
Vaccines developed, tested, and approved by rigorous scientific vetting processes remain both safe and essential tools for protecting the American public from preventable disease. They have saved tens of millions of human lives, especially of children at risk of death from illnesses including measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, tuberculosis, and smallpox.
