California Governor Gavin Newsom has accused Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of turning the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention into a political tool for medical quackery and has formed a new coalition to defy the Health Secretary on vaccines.
Days after CDC director Susan Monarez was forced out of her job after resisting controversial policies pushed by Kennedy, Newsom joined forces with the governors of Oregon and Washington to create a new West Coast Health Alliance to counter the “destruction” of the agency’s credibility.
“President Trump’s mass firing of CDC doctors and scientists—and his blatant politicization of the agency—is a direct assault on the health and safety of the American people,” the Democrat Governor said.
“The CDC has become a political tool that increasingly peddles i