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Senator Rand Paul, r-ky. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) Former CDC director Susan Monarez recommended the vaccine for babies on Wednesday.
Appearing back and forth at Senate hearings on the Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The decision to remove Monares last month. Monarez claims she was forced to refuse to fire the person in charge of the CDC’s vaccine recommendations, believing that there is no scientific support to remove certain vaccines from the list.
Paul tried to pour the table to the former officer during the interrogation.
Paul said: “When we talk about science here, we have to discuss how to give a vaccine to a 6-month-old science, what are the benefits from it? The benefits of not having hospitalization or dying. What are the risks of that vaccine? We have a great population study on vaccine risks for young people.”
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R-Ky. Senator Rand Paul clashed with Senator Bernie Sanders at a Senate hearing Wednesday. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg by Getty Images)
“You won’t fire people who say we have to vaccinate our children with six-month-old kids. That’s the people you refuse to fire,” he said.
Monares replied: “This assertion is not commensurate with my experience with the person who was determined to be fired.”
Paul said before Sanders interjected: “Anyone you refuses to fire will refuse to fire: “She is going to answer this question. ”
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Paul then argued that “we should” cancel the baby’s acceptance advice Severe special infectious pneumonia vaccine The others he said had nothing to do with children.
Susan Monarez, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), held a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, September 17, 2025. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“What is the medical reason for providing hepatitis B vaccine to newborns who do not have hepatitis?” Paul asked.
Then, when Paul spoke to Monarez, Sanders interjected again, who did not directly answer the question.
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“You have time Bernie, I have mine,” Paul said hard before returning to Monares. “If the mother has Hep-B negative, what are the medical reasons and evidence for giving the newborn a hepatitis B vaccine?”
Sanders interrupted Paul’s inquiry several times during a Senate hearing Wednesday. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Monares once again refused to answer the question directly, and Paul argued that “the burden should bear your burden” to prove that the vaccine recommended by the baby is actually helpful.
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He said: “You want all kids to accept this?
