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Manchester, New Hampshire. – Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said Robert Kennedy Jr. The president of the Donald Trump administration’s secretary of health and public services has not resigned, and Americans will need to speak out.
“We have to assemble the American people. It’s a huge problem,” Sanders told Fox News is digitized.
“I’m not a scientist, I’m not a doctor, but I do talk to scientists, I do talk to doctors, and the evidence is overwhelming. It’s undisputed. Vaccine work. Vaccine work. They save millions of lives.”
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders called on HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign. Kennedy saw it at an event held on Monday, August 4, 2025 at the National Mall in Washington, DC. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
The progressive champion and the runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020 also warned: “If Kennedy and his friends can make people think that the vaccine is unsafe, it will be a real public health crisis in the United States.”
Sanders is a growing number of politicians and officials who warn that Kennedy is a longtime environmentalist and vaccine skeptic. Trump chose His second administration served as Secretary of Health late last year, and he endangered American health with his controversial move.
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“Mr. Kennedy and other members of the Trump administration have told us over and over again that they want to make America healthy again. It’s a great slogan. I agree. The problem is that since taking office, President Trump has been exactly the opposite of President Kennedy,” Sanders wrote in a New York Times article.
“Despite overwhelming opposition from the medical community, Secretary Kennedy continued his long crusades and advocacy for conspiracy theories that were repeatedly rejected by scientific experts,” Sanders said.
Left Senator Bernie Sanders called on Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign. （Eric Lee/Bloomberg/Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman）
Sanders fired Susan Monarez, director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), last week after calling on Kennedy to resign. Monarez rejected Kennedy’s instructions to adopt new restrictions, including the availability of some vaccines, including approval for the Covid-19-19-19-19 vaccine.
Hours later, four other top CDC officials resigned during the protests, accusing the Trump administration and Kennedy of weapons of public health.
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Sanders, whose annual Labor Day breakfast at AFL-CIO in New Hampshire was titled Monday, accused Kennedy of “ridiculously claiming that ‘there is no safe and effective vaccine.”
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders held the New Hampshire AFL-CIO Annual Labor Day breakfast in Manchester on September 1, 2025. NH (Paul Steinhauser-Fox News)
“Who supports Secretary Kennedy’s point of view?” Sanders asked. “Unreliable scientists and doctors. One of the leading ‘experts’ he cites, supporting false claims of autism and vaccines, whose medical license was revoked and his research was withdrawn from published medical journals.”
The incident was subject to a rare bipartisan counterattack by some MPs.
But the White House defended Monares’ sack, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that the president has the right to “fire people who don’t match his mission.”
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“President and Secretary Kennedy is committed to prevent, detect and respond to future threats by ensuring their leadership and decisions are more public and responsible.
Fox News Bonny Chu and Landon Mion contribute to this story
