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Minister of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. The U.S. public lost confidence in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and outlined his plans to rebuild trust for the Wall Street Journal column editor, the U.S. said Tuesday.
Kennedy Accusation Decades of bureaucracy, politicized science and “mission spread” are intended to undermine the central role of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in protecting Americans from infectious diseases and wasting public confidence.
Kennedy noted that the CDC’s response to Covid-19 is an example of the dysfunction that “generates irrational policies” and further erodes the agency.
“Toddlers’ cloth masks, arbitrary 6-foot distances, boosters for healthy children, prolonged school closures, lockdowns of economic sprints, and inhibition of low-cost therapeutics to support experimental and ineffective drugs,” he wrote. “The casualties are devastating.”
Workers over 1,000 hhs demand Kennedy’s resignation to reject CDC director firing and agency changes
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
While some may view the agency’s mistakes during the pandemic as one-time mistakes, Kennedy asserted that such failures were “anomalous”, citing life expectancy and reduced public trust as evidence.
“The trust has collapsed: Only one-third of health care workers participated in the 2023-24 fall boost boost program, and in 2024-25 children under the age of 12, less than 10% received boosters. Americans no longer believe that the CDC has their best interests.”
At the operational level, the HHS Secretary criticized the CDC’s budget allocation and staffing. He tore half of the agency’s total budget to support its infectious disease mission, and in fact, less than one in ten of its staff are epidemiologists – he blamed for the CDC’s “catastrophic” pandemic response.
On Wednesday, June 25, 2025, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is visible to Atlanta. (Mike Stewart/AP Photo)
Despite the criticism, Kennedy said he hopes the agency can restore its former effectiveness. He noted that the CDC’s response to the measles outbreak this year demonstrates how the agency can act quickly and accurately under the guidance of science and ideology. ”
Kennedy highlights some actions already taken Trump administration Resolve issues that affect the CDC, such as replacing leaders who resist reforms and eliminate conflicts of interest and bureaucratic complacency.
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Little Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. details some of the ways the Trump administration has been working to increase public confidence in the CDC. (Getty Image)
“First, the CDC must restore public trust and recovery has begun,” he concluded. “U.S. public health agencies once again serve people in a transparent, honest and upright way.”
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More than 1,000 current and former employees of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) signed a letter calling on Kennedy to resign on Wednesday.
Employees cite Kennedy’s recent removal of Susan Monarez, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They also accuse Kennedy of appointing a “political thinker” to an authoritative position.
These are nine former directors and former agents CDC Director wrote on Monday In The New York Times, Kennedy’s leadership is endangering all Americans, accusing him of understateing the vaccine and focusing on unproven treatments.
HHS did not respond to a request for comment.
