More than 1,000 HHS employees call Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign

More than 1,000 current and former employees of the Ministry of Health and Social Services (HHS) have signed a letter calling the HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to resign on Wednesday.

The employees cited the recent Éviction by Kennedy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Susan Monarez. They also accused Kennedy of appointing “political ideologists” to the posts of authority.

“We believe that health policy should be based on solid principles and based on evidence rather than partisan policy. But under the leaders of Kennedy, under the health of the Americans, whatever their policy,” said the letter.

“If he refused to resign, we call on the President and the American Congress to appoint a new secretary for health and social services, whose qualifications and experience guarantee that health policy is informed by an independent and impartial science evaluated by peers. We expect those who have leaders act when the health of the Americans is at stake,” continues the letter.

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The American Secretary for Health and Social Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., faces mass calls for his resignation from current and former HHS employees. (Getty Images)

HHS communications director Andrew Nixon postponed the letter in a statement to Fox News Digital.

“Secretary Kennedy is clear: the CDC has been broken for a long time. Restoring the most reliable public healthcare guard in the world will have a sustained reform and more personnel changes. Since his first day of office, he has committed to checking his hypotheses at the door-and he asked to fight to end the chronic illness epidemic and make America again in good health,” he said.

The letter comes only a few days after senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT., Also called Kennedy to resign, citing his actions at the CDC. The Trump administration announced the abolition of Monarez last week, less than a month after being confirmed, after refusing Kennedy’s directives to adopt new limitations on the availability of certain vaccines, including for approvals for COVVI-19 vaccines.

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Four other senior CDC officials resigned to protest after the ousting of Monarez, pointing out in part of the anti-vaccine policies pushed by Kennedy. Hundreds of workers from the agency also left the CDC headquarters in Atlanta to support their former colleagues.

Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT., Called Kennedy to resign earlier this week. (Joe Maher)

Sanders wrote in an editorial for the New York Times that Kennedy “endangers the health of the American people now and in the future” and accused the secretary of dismissing Monarez because she refused to “act as a rubber stamp for her dangerous policies”.

“Despite the overwhelming opposition of the medical community, secretary Kennedy continued his long -standing crusade against vaccines and his plea for conspiracy theories that have been rejected several times by scientific experts,” Sanders wrote.

“It is absurd to have to say it in 2025, but the vaccines are safe and effective,” he added. “It is of course not only in my opinion. Much more important, it is the overwhelming consensus of medical and scientific communities.”

The Trump administration defended the ouster of Monarez, with the press secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt To say Thursday that the president has the “power to dismiss those who are not aligned with his mission”.

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“The president and secretary Kennedy undertakes to restore confidence, transparency and credibility to the CDC by ensuring that their leadership and their decisions are more accessible to the public, more responsible, by strengthening our public health system and by restoring it to its main mission to protect the Americans against transmitted diseases, to invest in innovation to prevent, detect and respond to future threats,” said Levitt with reporters.

Landon Mion of Fox News contributed to this report