Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s sister and nephew called on the secretary to resign Friday after he questioned the safety of vaccination while testifying before a congressional committee.
Why it matters: The resignation calls came hours before President Trump broke with Kennedy by encouraging the public to take vaccines, and a day after several Republican members of the committee questioned the secretary's fitness following the upheaval at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
What they're saying: "Medical decisions belong in the hands of trained and licensed professionals, not incompetent and misguided leadership," Kerry Kennedy, Kennedy's sister, posted on X on Friday. • "The decimation of critical institutions like the NIH and the CDC will lead to the loss of inno