{"id":99927,"date":"2026-09-19T02:17:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/rfk-jr-tells-anti-vaccine-activists-they-have-a-friend-in-trumps-white-house\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T02:17:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:17:28","slug":"rfk-jr-tells-anti-vaccine-activists-they-have-a-friend-in-trumps-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/rfk-jr-tells-anti-vaccine-activists-they-have-a-friend-in-trumps-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. tells anti-vaccine activists they have a friend in Trump&#8217;s White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave the keynote address Thursday at a conference of an anti-vaccine activist group he once chaired, telling the hundreds in attendance that they had a friend in President Donald Trump&#8217;s White House.<\/p>\n<p>It was Kennedy&#8217;s first time appearing at the Children&#8217;s Health Defense conference since he became secretary. Kennedy took leave from the group when he launched his bid to become president in 2023, but his speech Thursday served as a sort of homecoming, offering him a platform from which to hail the administration&#8217;s steps to scale back vaccine guidance and reassure the activists in attendance that he was working to turn their priorities into policy. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let me be clear: You have a strong and steadfast friend in the White House. We&#8217;ve accomplished in 19 months things that would have seemed unthinkable two years ago,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The speech, peppered with questions about long-established vaccine safety, also highlighted how once fringe views <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cdc-website-change-vaccines-autism\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">on vaccines<\/a><\/span> have been given a prominent pulpit under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy boasted about the administration&#8217;s moves to downsize the childhood vaccination schedule and reshape a key vaccine advisory board \u2014 steps that have since been halted by a judge.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy lauded Trump for pushing ahead with attempts to overhaul vaccine guidance, including an executive order last month calling for <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-childhood-vaccines-executive-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">spacing out<\/a><\/span> the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, against medical groups&#8217; recommendations. <\/p>\n<p>That executive order and now Kennedy&#8217;s keynote speech at the Children&#8217;s Health Defense conference mark a pivot by the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services, who earlier this year had appeared to be moving beyond vaccine efforts and toward a less contentious agenda on healthy food ahead of November&#8217;s midterm elections. HHS promoted the speech on its social media channels.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist, chaired Children&#8217;s Health Defense for years. He served as the group&#8217;s chief legal counsel and expanded it. After becoming health secretary last year, Kennedy moved at a blistering pace to overhaul public health guidance and revamp long-held precedents in vaccine policymaking.<\/p>\n<p>Critics, among them many of the country&#8217;s top medical associations, have said the moves risk stoking vaccine hesitancy and sowing confusion among Americans who endured a crisis of trust in their public health agencies following the COVID-19 pandemic. That public confidence continues to erode. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have not taken vaccines away from anybody. We have preserved access. But we have started asking the questions that you and millions of American parents have been asking for years,&#8221; Kennedy told the group. <\/p>\n<p>Mary Holland, the CEO of Children&#8217;s Health Defense, referred to Kennedy as &#8220;Bobby&#8221; and said the group has &#8220;gratitude beyond words&#8221; to the HHS secretary for &#8220;recognizing there are real consequential issues around childhood vaccinations.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Kennedy&#8217;s appearance Thursday comes as the country faces its <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/measles-outbreak-us-map-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">worst year for measles<\/a><\/span> since 1991 and has seen seven reported measles-associated deaths in the last two years \u2014 more than the combined total of reported deaths over the previous three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania officials have reported four measles-associated <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/jefferson-county-measles-related-death-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">deaths<\/a><\/span> this year. None of the four were vaccinated, according to the state health department. When state officials last month announced the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pennsylvania-coroner-measles-outbreak-infant-deaths\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">first two<\/a><\/span> of those deaths, it ignited a public feud between Gov. Josh Shapiro and Kennedy. <\/p>\n<p>Shapiro blasted Kennedy&#8217;s appearance on the social media site X Thursday, saying Kennedy &#8220;chose to spend his time today addressing the premier vaccine-denial conference in America.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Shapiro said the HHS secretary should have encouraged people to get vaccinated for measles, &#8220;yet he couldn&#8217;t bring himself to do it. Instead, he pushed a narrative that continues to stoke fear and mistrust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A representative from the White House did not respond to an Associated Press request for comment on Kennedy&#8217;s appearance at the event. <\/p>\n<p>Following Kennedy onstage Thursday was Andrew Wakefield, an author of a since-discredited study that linked the MMR vaccine to <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rfk-jr-autism-research-trump-vaccines\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">autism<\/a><\/span>, which has fueled the anti-vaccine movement even though it was retracted.<\/p>\n<p>Widespread scientific consensus and decades of studies have firmly concluded <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/elections\/rfk-kennedy-politifact-lie-of-year-2023-autism-vaccines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">there is no link<\/a> between vaccines and autism.<\/p>\n<p>Shaughnessy Naughton, founder of 314 Action, a group that recruits scientists to run for public office, said Kennedy&#8217;s decision to give a speech at the conference shows &#8220;the lack of seriousness he brings to HHS.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With a deadly measles outbreak killing people in Pennsylvania, the best thing Kennedy can do for Americans is step aside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-anti-vaccine-activists-white-house\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. 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