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Passages

(3,594 posts)
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 12:58 PM Aug 30

Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign

Aug. 30, 2025, 7:00 a.m. ET

By Bernie Sanders

Senator Sanders, independent of Vermont, is the ranking member of the Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign.

Mr. Kennedy and the rest of the Trump administration tell us, over and over, that they want to Make America Healthy Again. That’s a great slogan. I agree with it. The problem is that since coming into office President Trump and Mr. Kennedy have done exactly the opposite.

This week, Mr. Kennedy pushed out the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after less than one month on the job because she refused to act as a rubber stamp for his dangerous policies. Four leading officials at C.D.C. resigned the same week. One of those officials said Mr. Kennedy’s team asked him to “change studies that have been settled in the past” apparently to fit Mr. Kennedy’s anti-vaccine views. This is not Making America Healthy Again.

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He has called the Covid-19 vaccines the “deadliest” ever made despite findings cited by the W.H.O. that Covid shots saved over 14 million lives throughout the world in 2021 alone.

He has ridiculously questioned whether the polio vaccine has killed more people than polio itself did even though scientists have found that the vaccine has saved 1.5 million lives and prevented around 20 million people from becoming paralyzed since 1988.



https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/opinion/bernie-sanders-robert-f-kennedy-jr-resign-hhs.html

Build the campaign against him, create opportunites to have scientists and phsyisicians stand with Democrats visibly and repeat the truth about this fraud until Trump can't stand the noise any longer....never give up an inch to this maniac.




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Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign (Original Post) Passages Aug 30 OP
Why isn't every Dem member of Congress and the Senate saying this? Unify! Sneederbunk Aug 30 #1
I don't know. Passages Aug 30 #2
So did Schumer sheshe2 Aug 30 #3
Excellent. Passages Aug 30 #4

Passages

(3,594 posts)
2. I don't know.
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 01:26 PM
Aug 30

I am hoping to see them unify a plan asap. Never give up, never. This is so off-the-charts insane and irresponsible, it has catastrophic potential for harm.

sheshe2

(93,712 posts)
3. So did Schumer
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 01:42 PM
Aug 30

Schumer demands RFK Jr. firing over CDC chaos

“RFK Jr.’s stubborn, pigheaded, and conspiracy-based attacks on proven science are going to make many more people sick and cause more deaths. Americans are in greater danger every day Robert Kennedy Jr. remains as HHS Secretary,” Schumer said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5477129-schumer-kennedy-cdc-monarez/
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