Sanders warns the vaccination skepticism of RFK Jr.

Manchester, NH. – Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont says that if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. does not resign as secretary to health and social services in the administration of President Donald Trump, the Americans will have to speak.

“We have to join the American people. This is a huge problem,” Sanders told Fox News Digital on Monday.

Sanders, classification member of the Senate, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said: “I am not a scientist, I am not a doctor, but I speak to scientists, and I speak to doctors, and evidence is overwhelming. It is not questionable. Vaccines work. They save millions and millions of lives.”

Why Bernie Sanders calls RFK Jr. resigning

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont calls the secretary of HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to resign. Kennedy is seen at a National Mall event in Washington DC on Monday, August 4, 2025. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

And the progressive champion and the second champion of the 2016 presidential appointment and 2020 warned that “if Kennedy and his friends are able to make people think that vaccines are not safe, it will be a real public health crisis for America”.

Sanders is part of an increasing list of politicians and officials who warn that Kennedy, the long -standing environmental activist and a vaccine skeptical who chose at the end of last year as a health secretary in his second administration, endangers the health of the Americans with his controversial movements.

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“Mr. Kennedy and the rest of the Trump administration tell us, again and again, that they want to make America healthy. It is an excellent slogan. I agree with this. The problem is that since his entry into office, President Trump and Mr. Kennedy have done exactly the opposite,” Sanders wrote last weekend in an article of opinion in the New York Times.

And Sanders said that “despite the overwhelming opposition of the medical community, secretary Kennedy continued his longtime crusade against vaccines and his advocacy towards conspiracy theories that have been rejected several times by scientific experts.”

Senator Bernie Sanders, on the left, calls the secretary of health and social services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign. (Eric Lee / Bloomberg / Mikala Compton / The Austin American-Statesman)

Sanders’ call to Kennedy to resign intervened after the director of the dismissal of Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Susan Monarez, less than a month after being confirmed. Monarez’s dismissal came after refusing Kennedy’s directives to adopt new limitations on the availability of certain vaccines, including approvals for COVVI-19 vaccines.

Four other senior CDC officials resigned during the protest of hours later, accusing the Trump administration and Kennedy of the armament of public health.

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Sanders, who was interviewed on Monday after the headliner at the New Hampshire AFL-CIO annual breakfast, was accused of his statement during the weekend that Kennedy “absurdly said that” there is no safe and efficient vaccine “.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont made the headlines of the New Hampshire AFL-CIO for the breakfast of the Labor Day, on September 1, 2025 in Manchester. NH (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

“Who supports the opinions of secretary Kennedy?” Sanders asked. “Not scientists and credible doctors. One of his main” experts “he quotes to support his false complaints on autism and vaccines if his medical license has been revoked and his study withdrew from the medical journal that published it.”

The incident received rare bipartisan repressions by certain members of the Congress.

But the White House defended the dismissal of Monarerez, the press secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, told journalists on Thursday that the president “the authority to dismiss those who are not aligned on 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, the strengthening of our public health system and the restoration of its main mission to protect the Americans against transmitted diseases, to invest in innovation to prevent, detect and respond to future threats,” said Levitt.

Fox News Bonny Chu and Landon Mion contributed to this story