NonilexApr 4, 2025

#RFKJr Is Out for Revenge

By Nicholas Florko

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is finally getting his wish of sucker-punching the federal #health agencies. This week, Kennedy began the process of firing some 10k employees working under the #HHS umbrella.

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RFK Jr. Is Out for Revenge

The health secretary’s indiscriminate layoffs will undermine his own priorities.

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Even before he took office, #RFKJr warned #health ofcls that they should pack their bags, & on Tues, he defended the cuts: “What we’ve been doing isn’t working,” RFKJr posted. He [says he] is focused on “realigning #HHS w/its core mission: to stop the chronic #disease epidemic & Make America Healthy Again.” But instead of improving how the federal health bureaucracy works, RFKJr is throwing his agencies into #chaos.

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…#RFKJr, an #AntiVaccine advocate, seems to have targeted more than just the most pro-#vaccine voices in the govt. During his confirmation hearings, Kennedy said he would “empower the scientists” as #health secy, but here are just a few of the MDs & PhDs who were reportedly targeted yesterday:

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Apr 4, 2025 at 2:02pmWeb
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the head of the #FDA’s Office of New #Drugs, the head of the National Institute of #Allergy & #InfectiousDiseases [#NIAID], the director of the #CDC’s National Center for #HIV, Viral #Hepatitis, #STD, & #TB Prevention, the head of the CDC’s Center for Forecasting & #Outbreak Analytics,

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the director of the National Institute of #ChildHealth & Human Development [#NICHD], the director of the #NIH’s Division of #Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, the director of the National Institute of #Nursing #Research [#NINR], & the director of the National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities [#NIMHD].

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No plan—not his *MAHA* agenda, not efficiency, nothing—can realistically explain cuts like these. Instead, the #MassFirings don’t seem to be a means to an end on the way to overhauling American #health. They are an end in themselves.

It’ll take months, if not years, to fully appreciate the effect that the cuts will have on America’s scientific enterprise.

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