Cassidy Presses RFK Jr. on New CDC Director’s Vaccine Autonomy (1)

Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chair Bill Cassidy (R-La.) probed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the freedom of the freshly nominated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director to make decisions on vaccine policy at the Committee’s HHS budget hearing Thursday.

“Will the new director, whoever she is, have the right to make decisions independently of those political appointees, and/or replace them, or otherwise reassign them so they cannot continue to actively undermine trust in immunizations?” said Cassidy, referring to Erica Schwartz, who was tapped last week to lead the agency tasked with ...