Join Robert Reich: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must be stopped

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich here. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that the Covid-19 vaccines have saved 3.2 million lives in the United States. Yet in a Senate hearing, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told senators that he had no idea how many Americans had been saved. He also didn't know how many Americans died.

Kennedy Jr. has fired the CDC's career experts, replaced its independent advisory committee with anti-vaccine extremists and conspiracy theorists, and cancelled all research funding for mRNA vaccines. Now, the emergency use authorization for lifesaving Covid-19 vaccines has been revoked.

This is a calculated destruction of public health from the inside. Kennedy Jr. is placing the health of every American at risk.

Sign the petition: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must resign, be fired, or impeached. Demand Congress take action now.

Even Republicans in Congress are now unhappy with him. Senator John Barrasso, the Senate's second-ranking Republican, took direct aim at Kennedy Jr.'s stance on vaccines: "I support vaccines. I'm a doctor. Vaccines work. Secretary Kennedy, in your confirmation hearings, you promised to uphold the highest standards for vaccines."

Add your name to tell Congress: Kennedy Jr. must go, now!