Tag: RFK Jr.

Fauci Still More Trusted than RFK Jr.

Buck Banks

50%

A new Annenberg Public Policy Center poll finds 50% of Americans say they are somewhat or very confident that Dr. Anthony Fauci provided the public with trustworthy information about matters concerning public health, a statistically significant decline of 5 percentage points since April 2026. By comparison, just 38% of Americans in August 2026 say they are confident that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is providing trustworthy information about public health.

Warnock Says Kennedy Should Resign

Buck Banks

“Personally, sir, even as you seem distracted while I talk to you about deadly diseases, I think you’re dangerous to the American public, and you ought to be fired. And if you’re not fired, you ought to have the decency to resign. You’re way in over your head.”

— Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), at a Senate hearing with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

RFK Jr. Pulls $500 Million in Vaccine Development Projects

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$500 million

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic, announced in a statement Tuesday that $500 million worth of vaccine development projects, all using mRNA technology, will be halted,” the AP reports. “The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, Covid-19 and H5N1 infections.”

Shapiro: Let’s Not Reward Congressional Bullsh*t on Vaccines

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“It is dangerous to me that politicians are being rewarded for spewing absolute bullshit when it comes to vaccines. What they’re doing is incredibly dangerous for public health. I think we have a responsibility to not reward them politically and to stand up against what they are pushing out there.”

— Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), quoted by Rolling Stone.

Nobel Laureates Band Together Against RFK Jr.

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75

“More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services,” the New York Times reports. “The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice.”

Trump Paid $100,000 for RFK Jr.’s Capitulation and Endorsement

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$100,000

“Weeks after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the presidential race in August and endorsed Donald Trump, the Trump campaign paid a California law firm that lists Kennedy among its lawyers,” NBC News reports. “The Trump campaign — now known as Never Surrender Inc. — disbursed $100,000 to ‘JW Howard Attorneys’ on Sept. 13, just three weeks after Kennedy bowed out of the race and backed Trump, FEC records show. Financial data for Trump’s campaign, which was converted to a leadership PAC, appears in FEC filings under the new Never Surrender name.”