[ [link removed] ]Take action to stop RFK Jr. from leading the Health Department—RSVP to call
MoveOn members whose senators are undecided to help ramp up the pressure.

Dear MoveOn member,

Today, RFK Jr. faced his first Senate confirmation hearing as Trump's
nominee for the next leader of the Department of Health and Human
Services.^1 This means we have just days left to pressure our senators to
vote no before the full Senate vote. RFK Jr. is a grave threat to our
health and safety, and his confirmation must be rejected by the Senate.

Simply put, under RFK Jr.'s leadership, our people will become sicker. If
his anti-science positions become policy, more people will suffer and die.
This will be the result of his plans to stop infectious disease research,
promote anti-vaccine conspiracies, and take away Medicaid from millions of
people. And in his Senate hearing this morning, RFK Jr. just signaled that
he would declare the abortion pill Mifepristone unsafe!^2 We need a HHS
secretary that supports access to abortion care, not someone conspiring
against a safe FDA-approved pill.

It's critical that we flood Senate offices with phone calls to make clear
he is the wrong choice to lead HHS!

[ [link removed] ]Will you join a phone bank on Thursday, January 30, to mobilize fellow
MoveOn members to call their senators to demand they vote no on RFK Jr.'s
confirmation?

During this phone bank, you will be calling fellow MoveOn members in key
states to urge them to call their senators to demand they vote no on RFK
Jr.’s confirmation. You'll introduce yourself as a MoveOn member, have a
conversation about why RFK Jr. is a dangerous pick for this position, and
ask if they’d like to be connected directly to their senator's
office. MoveOn's technology will swiftly patch them through to their
senator automatically!

And we've selected five Republican senators to target that we think, with
enough pressure from constituents, could block RFK Jr.'s confirmation.

RFK Jr. wants to stop infectious disease drug development and research and
does not believe infectious diseases are an enormous threat to public
health. And with him in charge, we could see a deadly resurgence in
illnesses like measles and polio.^3

We've already seen the danger of RFK Jr.'s influence and anti-vaccine
position. In 2019, RFK Jr. promoted anti-vaccine conspiracy theories in
American Samoa that led to a measles outbreak which killed 83 people,
mainly children. His dangerous fringe beliefs have and will lead to more
deaths.^4

The Department of Health and Human Services oversees 13 sub-agencies,
including Medicare and Medicaid, and has a budget of well over $1 trillion
and more than 80,000 employees. Millions of Americans count on the
services and functioning of HHS, and RFK Jr. will run this agency into the
ground.^5

Donald Trump has nominated dangerous candidates for almost all of his
Cabinet positions—RFK Jr's nomination is another example of Trump being
out of touch with what Americans really need—a leader who will expand
access to health care and encourage people to believe in science, not spew
out anti-vaccine conspiracies and cut access to Medicaid.

For all these reasons and more, our senators must reject RFK Jr. as the
next secretary of Health and Human Services. Together, we can mobilize
thousands of people to call their senators to urge them to vote no on this
dangerous nominee.

[ [link removed] ]Join our phone bank to help encourage MoveOn members to join you in
calling their senators and speaking out against RFK Jr. as the next
secretary of Health and Human Services.

Thanks for all you do.

–Kelsey, Alexis, Britt, Nakia, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "RFK Jr. Senate confirmation hearing: Live updates," NBC News, January
29, 2025
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2. "RFK Jr. hearing live updates: Democrats hammer RFK Jr. on vaccine
comments, abortion," ABC News, January 29, 2025
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3. "7 things about RFK Jr. you should know ahead of his Senate hearings,"
NPR, January 28, 2025
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4. "Experts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis. RFK Jr.
saw an opportunity," NBC News, January 24, 2025
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5. "'He’s not a manager': Former RFK Jr. staffers on how he'd run HHS,"
Politico, November 28, 2024
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