Ranking Member Lofgren Condemns RFK Jr.'s Anti-Science Takeover of Vaccine Advisory Committee, Demands Reversal
(Washington, DC) – On June 9, 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy fired the entire Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Yesterday, Secretary Kennedy announced new members of ACIP, including noted vaccine skeptics, without any proper vetting or a transparent selection process. ACIP is supposed to function as an advisory committee of independent experts which makes recommendations to the CDC on the use of vaccines to prevent disease and death.
“Secretary Kennedy’s actions against the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is a dangerous new front in the Trump Administration’s war on science," said Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (CA-18). "Kennedy seems to be on a personal mission to replace America’s world-leading health science enterprise with a motley collection of health influencers, vaccine denialists, and cranks. The end result for the American people will be more disease and more death. Health professionals, including the American Medical Association, have already panned this latest anti-science effort from Secretary Kennedy. I echo their call for Secretary Kennedy to reverse his dangerous decision to replace the members of ACIP.”
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