RFK Jr. defends the flight from the leak on CDC, promises a “new blood” to the agency

The Secretary of Health and Social Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., defended the fascia of dismissal from the Trump administration to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, promising “new blood” will soon take control of the agency.

“America is home to 4.2% of the world’s population, but we had nearly 20% of the deaths of co -vored,” Kennedy said in the Senate Finance committee on Thursday. “We have literally won worse than any country in the world.”

Kennedy said that CDC leaders “supervised this process, who put masks on our children, who closed our schools, are the people who will leave.”

“And that is why we need a new bold, competent and creative leadership at CDC,” he continued. “People are able and willing to trace a new course. As my father said one day, progress is a good word, a change that is a motivator. And the change to its enemies. That is why we need new blood in the CDC.”

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The secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr., defended mass layoffs to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the audience of the Senate finance committee on September 4, 2025. (Wi McNamee / Getty Images)

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Kennedy testified before the committee’s hearing, which focused on the health care agenda of President Donald Trump and the vaccination advice. The Senate Democrats have toasted Kennedy on his movements to limit access to COVVI-19 plans for children, his dismissal of health officials and his links with figures that have questioned the safety of mRNA vaccines.

In recent months, the Trump administration has carried out a radical rehashing inside the CDC and federal health agencies. The 17 members of the CDC advisory committee on vaccination practices were rejected in June and CDC director Susan Monarez was dismissed in August. Kennedy has argued several times that changes are necessary to restore public confidence in health advice.

Monarez, who had been in position for less than a month after obtaining confirmation from the Senate, said in an editorial that Kennedy and his collaborators had told her that she had to resign or face a dismissal. She wrote that she had been responsible for “pre-appeal the recommendations of a vaccination consultative panel newly filled with people who have publicly expressed anti-vaccin rhetoric”.

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The secretary of health and social services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received the reactions of the Democrats du Senate for his vaccine comments on Thursday, September 4, 2025. (Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

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During the pandemic, the CDC recommended vaccines for children as young as six months and for pregnant women to help pass immunity to newborns, while older children had to wear masks in schools and daycare centers.

For many, the former director of the National Institutes of Health Anthony Fauci, the mask guidelines, have become one of the most controversial pandemic flash points. At the beginning of 2020, he discouraged the Americans to wear masks, citing supply shortages and limited evidence of asymptomatic propagation. A few weeks later, the CDC reversed the course and urged the fabric mask on a national scale. Fauci later said that mixed messaging had “deceived” the public and fueled distrust.