RFK Jr. must resign as Secretary of Health says Bernie Sanders, citing 'dangerous health policies.' - FIVE MINUTE NEWS

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Senator Bernie Sanders has joined in on growing public calls for Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr., to resign, after recent chaos across US health agencies.

Since he assumed leadership over the health department, Kennedy – a longtime anti-vaccine advocate – has fired health agency workers and entertained conspiracy theories. Last week, more than 750 current and former employees at US health agencies signed a letter in which they criticized Kennedy as an “existential threat to public health.”

The health agency workers went on to accuse the health secretary of being “complicit in dismantling America’s public health infrastructure and endangering the nation’s health by repeatedly spreading inaccurate health information.”

Sanders pointed to the White House’s firing of Susan Monarez, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as four other top CDC officials who resigned in protest this week after Monarez “refused to act as a rubber stamp” for Kennedy’s “dangerous policies.” - 08/31/2025.