Kennedy Family Demands RFK Jr.’s Resignation as Trump’s Health Secretary Amid Policy Backlash

WASHINGTON – Robert F. Kennedy Jr., currently serving as the Health and Human Services Secretary in the Trump administration, is facing intense calls for his resignation from prominent members of his own family, including his sister Kerry Kennedy and nephew Joseph P. Kennedy III. The scathing statements, issued on Friday, follow a contentious congressional hearing earlier this week where Secretary Kennedy faced bipartisan scrutiny over his leadership of federal health agencies.

The family’s demands come in the wake of Kennedy’s defense of his recent decisions to roll back COVID-19 vaccine recommendations and dismiss high-level officials at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Joseph P. Kennedy III, a former congressman, sharply criticized his uncle, stating on X, “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a threat to the health and wellbeing of every American. None of us will be spared the pain he is inflicting.” His aunt, Kerry Kennedy, echoed these sentiments, asserting that “medical decisions belong in the hands of trained and licensed professionals, not incompetent and misguided leadership.”

This is not the first instance of family members publicly opposing Kennedy’s public health views or political aspirations, having previously objected to his presidential campaign and his nomination for the Health Secretary role. As a long-standing figure in the anti-vaccine movement, Secretary Kennedy has spent the past seven months implementing significant changes within America’s public health system. These sweeping reforms, which include thousands of layoffs and a complete reevaluation of vaccine guidelines, have sparked considerable alarm among medical groups and officials in several Democratic-led states, some of whom have issued their own independent vaccine advice.

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