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Buyer's Remorse Finally Setting in for Bill Cassidy? [1]
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Date: 2025-06-24
It looks like Sen Bill Cassidy (R-LA) is rather belatedly coming to regret his reluctant support for Brainworm Bob’s confirmation as HHS secretary back in February. From Raw Story:
Cassidy, who chairs the Senate health committee and is a physician himself, urged the Trump administration on Monday to postpone a meeting later this week of Kennedy’s newly appointed vaccine advisory panel, Bloomberg reported. The GOP lawmaker argued the panel is too small and lacks scientific credibility.
“Wednesday’s meeting should not proceed with a relatively small panel, and no CDC Director in place to approve the panel’s recommendations,” Cassidy posted Monday on X. He added that Kennedy’s eight appointees “do not have significant experience studying microbiology, epidemiology or immunology,” and “may even have a preconceived bias” against messenger RNA vaccines.
Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic, recently fired all 17 members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The move came months after Cassidy voted to confirm the Trump administration official under the assurances he would do no such thing. The firings – and the contradiction of Kennedy's confirmation promise – drew outrage from prominent health experts and journalists when it was announced earlier this month.
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