Laura from Health Care Voices here. RFK Jr.'s appointment is reckless and irresponsible.

Join Health Care Voices in telling Congress: RFK Jr. is not fit to lead the Department of Health and Human Services!

Dear MoveOn member, 

Laura from Health Care Voices here. In one week Donald Trump will be inaugurated, and he has already started working to push through his blatantly disqualified and harmful Cabinet nominees. Health care advocates, people with serious medical conditions, and their loved ones are deeply concerned about the public health effects of appointing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). We are running out of time, and we have to mobilize NOW to block this dangerous nomination. 

RFK Jr. has already met with dozens of senators, and while many senators support his nomination following his pledge to support Trump's "pro-life" agenda, a few are skeptical after his latest proposals on polio and measles vaccines. It will take just a few Republican senators to block his nomination. But we are running out of time, and we have to mobilize NOW to block this dangerous nomination.

Will you join together with people who care about the safety and health of our country and sign the petition specifically opposing RFK Jr.'s nomination?

The HHS is responsible for overseeing critical research treatments and cures for infectious diseases. But RFK Jr. does not believe infectious diseases are an enormous threat to public health. How can we trust this person to keep us safe and make progress to make our communities safer? 

We don't have to guess what harm RFK Jr.'s dangerous anti-vaccine crusade will do in our communities. We've already seen the damage in places like Samoa, where anti-vaccine activists spreading disinformation—with RFK Jr. himself as one of the leading voices—led to a preventable and heartbreaking outbreak of measles just five years ago, killing dozens of children.1 His beliefs are not just fringe—they are deadly. 

Right now, with outbreaks of H5N1 (bird flu) occurring in animals in the U.S., it's terrifying to think how an anti-science conspiracy theorist like RFK Jr.—and the individuals he will hire and appoint to major agencies—will handle infectious disease outbreaks like this. 

RFK Jr.'s appointment is reckless and irresponsible. And it's the duty of Congress to protect the American people and BLOCK his nomination. Will you sign the petition against RFK Jr.'s appointment in the name of public health?

Congress must protect public health by opposing RFK Jr.'s appointment to the Department of Health and Human Services!

Even the American Public Health Association released a statement saying that "America deserves better than RFK Jr."2

The Department of Health and Human Services employs 80,000 individuals and has a budget of over $1 trillion. It oversees drug, vaccine, and food safety, as well as critical research and social service programs like Medicare and Medicaid. And it also oversees 13 important subagencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).3 RFK Jr. has no experience running a government agency, let alone an organization this big and this important.

RFK Jr. would send us further backward and put our families and communities at greater risk of harm. Will you add your name to the petition?

We need individuals who believe in science and scientific evidence, and who will lead with integrity and in the best interest of the public. RFK Jr. has failed to demonstrate the basic qualifications for this role. And our elected officials need to demonstrate political courage and oppose this nomination. 

Click here to add your name to the petition and show the overwhelming public opposition to RFK Jr. for secretary of HHS.

Thanks for all you do. 

–Laura Packard, Health Care Voices

Sources:

1. "I'm the Governor of Hawaii. I've Seen What Vaccine Skepticism Can Do." The New York Times, January 7, 2025
https://act.moveon.org/go/201692?t=8&akid=421200%2E40999114%2EHKtafm

2. "America deserves better than RFK Jr," American Public Health Association, November 18, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/201693?t=10&akid=421200%2E40999114%2EHKtafm

3. "'He's not a manager': Former RFK Jr. staffers on how he'd run HHS," Politico, November 28, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/201694?t=12&akid=421200%2E40999114%2EHKtafm

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