“ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign.”

That’s how U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) began a New York Times op-ed on Saturday, amid mounting calls for Kennedy to leave the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), by choice or force, following the ouster of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Susan Monarez.

As Sanders detailed in the Times — and a Thursday letter to Senate HELP Committee Chair Bill Cassidy (R-La.) demanding a congressional probe — Monarez was fired after reportedly refusing to “act as a rubber stamp for his dangerous policies.” Her exit le

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