Graeme Sloan\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n 180 shots fired<\/span>, 150 broken windows<\/a>. Tumultuous firings and resignations at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The installation of a techno-optimist<\/a> with a history of pushing unproven medical treatments. The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department. <\/p>\n It\u2019s against this chaos that Democrats are demanding that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. be removed from his post as the nation\u2019s top public health official. \u201cThe reality is that Secretary Kennedy has profited from and built a career on sowing mistrust in vaccines,\u201d Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote in a scathing editorial<\/a> on Saturday. \u201cNow, as head of HHS, he is using his authority to launch a full-blown war on science, on public health, and on truth itself.\u201d Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer also joined the calls, lambasting Kennedy\u2019s attacks on well-established science as \u201cstubborn, pigheaded, conspiracy-based.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBy keeping Robert Kennedy in charge of HHS, Trump is doubling down on his own failure,\u201d Schumer wrote. \u201cPresident Trump must admit his mistake and remove Kennedy now.\u201d<\/p>\n Kennedy\u2019s leadership has long been a source of acute concern from virtually everyone in the scientific and medical community. (An avowed vaccine skeptic with notoriously dangerous views on everything from autism to HIV, Kennedy is about to have personal authority<\/a> over who gets kicked off Medicaid.) But this month, after a vaccine conspiracy theorist<\/a> opened fire on the CDC building in Atlanta, Georgia\u2014a shooting Kennedy was conspicuously slow to respond to\u2014and Kennedy\u2019s abrupt dismissal of CDC Chief Susan Monarez this week, the clear menace presented by the secretary has become clear.<\/p>\n Yet, it remains nearly impossible to see a scenario that will prompt his removal. On Friday, White House Deputy Chief Stephen Miller called<\/a> Kennedy a \u201ccrown jewel of this administration.\u201d Meanwhile, the one Republican senator, who at one point seemed slightly concerned over Kennedy\u2019s views, Rep. Bill Cassidy, doesn\u2019t seem too fussed<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n
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