The Needle: Trump Threatens Feds’ Backpay, Air Traffic Controllers Are Calling Out Sick, And Surgeons General Slam RFK Jr.

• Doctors visit: Every former U.S. surgeon general since President George H.W. Bush says sewage swimmer and Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “endangering” the country’s health. “Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this,” the doctors write in an op-ed published in the Post. “But the profound, immediate, and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.” Among their reasons for speaking out: the worst measles outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades (and the first measles-related child death in 20 years), Kennedy’s discredited claims about childhood vaccinations, misinformation about the HPV vaccine, and the scientifically unjustified warning labels on acetaminophen products, among many others.