Rogue GOP Publicly Undermines RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Committee Plans

Daphne Moon 0 2 min read

In a revealing display of the deep-seated resistance to reform within the federal bureaucracy, the liberal media is once again rallying behind the established order to attack the necessary changes being implemented by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The latest salvo involves Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, publicly questioning the newly reconstituted vaccine committee.

Senator Cassidy expressed concerns regarding a perceived “lack of scientific process being followed” for an upcoming meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). His statement, eagerly amplified by a compliant press, read: “Serious allegations have been made about the meeting agenda, membership, and lack of scientific process being followed for the now announced September ACIP meeting.”

This critique ignores the foundational reason for Secretary Kennedy’s decisive action: the urgent need to drain the swamp of entrenched bureaucrats and pharmaceutical industry influencers who have long controlled health policy for their own benefit, not for the benefit of the American people.

Cassidy’s statement further declared, “These decisions directly impact children’s health and the meeting should not occur until significant oversight has been conducted.” He concluded with a directive that physicians should ignore the committee’s work, stating, “If the meeting proceeds, any recommendations made should be rejected as lacking legitimacy given the seriousness of the allegations and the current turmoil in CDC leadership.”

This opposition follows Secretary Kennedy’s courageous and essential “clean sweep” of the committee in June, a move that removed all 17 sitting members. Kennedy justified this necessary overhaul by correctly noting that the committee’s four-year terms allowed holdovers from the Biden administration to continue wielding influence against the agenda of President Donald Trump.

Furthermore, Kennedy highlighted a critical fact the liberal media consistently ignores: committee members often have deep and compromising ties to the very pharmaceutical industry they are supposed to regulate, a conflict of interest exposed as far back as a 2000 congressional investigation.

The current turmoil is further evidenced by the high-profile showdown between Kennedy and CDC Director Susan Monarez. Reports from former acting CDC director Robert Besser suggest the spat involved Monarez signaling she wouldn’t greenlight every decision by the reformed ACIP, a clear act of insubordination against the Secretary’s authority.

The deep state character of the opposition is crystal clear when examining Monarez’s legal representation. Her attorney, Mark S. Zaid, is a longtime antagonist of President Trump, having represented the intelligence official central to the 2019 impeachment witch hunt.

Monarez’s other attorney, Abbe David Lowell, is a key player in the legal assault against the President, representing New York Attorney General Letitia James and having previously represented Hunter Biden, further illustrating the politicized nature of the resistance to Kennedy’s reforms.

Adding to the chorus of dissent from the old guard, former CDC Director Demetre Daskalakis resigned in protest. In a resignation letter posted to X, Daskalakis claimed his departure was “prompted by changes in recommendations around COVID-19 vaccines for children and the ACIP overhaul.”

He further alleged that “CDC had not been informed of the committee’s overhaul before Kennedy announced it on social media,” a complaint that merely reveals the entitled expectation of a bureaucracy accustomed to operating without transparency or accountability to the American people and their elected leadership.

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