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Why the world is watching RFK's fight with US health agency
BBC ^ | September 5, 2025 | Jim Reed

Posted on 09/06/2025 4:16:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

In fiery Senate testimony this week, US Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr once again set his sights on the nation's top public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

His appearance came days after he suddenly fired the new CDC director, Susan Monarez, provoking a group of senior staff to resign in protest.

At the hearing, when asked for an explanation, Kennedy claimed he had asked Ms Monarez if she was a "trustworthy person" and she had replied "no", to some disbelief from his opponents in the room.

He then admitted he had once described the CDC as the "most corrupt" agency in government, and strongly hinted he's not finished with his plans to shake up the organisation.

Kennedy's words have sparked a furious backlash, with many doctors and scientists increasingly concerned that America's public health systems are being dangerously compromised.

It's a conflict that could have a significant impact not just on health policy in the US but across the world. In the past, the CDC has been instrumental in global health, leading the response to crises from famine, to HIV, to Ebola.

Founded in 1946, the CDC tracks emerging infectious diseases like Covid and is also tasked with tackling long-term or chronic conditions such as heart disease and cancer.

It operates more than 200 specialised laboratories and employs 13,000 people, although that number has been cut by around 2,000 since President Donald Trump returned to office.

It does not approve or licence vaccines. That responsibility lies with the Food and Drug Administration.

But it does produce official recommendations on who should receive which vaccines through a panel of experts - known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) - and monitors their side effects and other safety concerns.

Vaccine dispute

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cdc; corruption; globohomo; hhs; nevertrumpkywrdtroll; rfkjr; rfkooky; rfktrollneedsazot; robertkennedyjr

1 posted on 09/06/2025 4:16:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Go RFK! Fire every one of the Satanists running our healthcare system!


2 posted on 09/06/2025 4:22:49 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I support this guy 100%.

He is moving America to: ONLY essential drugs and vax AND food toward whole, chemical free and unprocessed.

I love the guy and his anchor belief system concerning the role of public health.

A remarkable public servant.


3 posted on 09/06/2025 4:31:49 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
Robert F Kennedy Jr exposes the biggest Big Pharma Secret

RFK Jr. “We don’t understand the risk profile because vaccines are the only medical intervention, medical device, or pharmaceutical drug that are exempt from pre-licensing safety studies”

EXEMPT FROM SAFETY STUDIES #MAHA

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1964210553426952538


4 posted on 09/06/2025 4:48:32 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Mariner

When PDJT connected with RFK, I have to admit to being skeptical... it may end up being the smartest and most positively consequential move he has made.


5 posted on 09/06/2025 4:49:58 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: Mariner

The guy said on tape that he eats mostly meat, fermented vegetables, and yogurt.

Gotta hand it to him.


6 posted on 09/06/2025 4:52:20 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“The Kennedy Character Assassination”


7 posted on 09/06/2025 4:58:16 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“The Kennedy Character Assassination”


8 posted on 09/06/2025 4:58:16 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
Go RFK! Fire every one of the Satanists running our healthcare system!

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Amen!!

Fight, Fight, Fight ✊🏼

9 posted on 09/06/2025 5:04:16 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: combat_boots

The guy said on tape that he eats mostly meat, fermented vegetables, and yogurt.


Nothing wrong with that!! 😍


10 posted on 09/06/2025 5:05:23 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: hecticskeptic

Thanks for saying so. RFKJ may well have an impact as great as Trump.


12 posted on 09/06/2025 5:11:57 PM PDT by bigbob (If thou doth eff around, thou wilt findeth out)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All

200 labs and 13,000 employees? Doing what?


13 posted on 09/06/2025 5:25:28 PM PDT by Cobra64 (ECommon sense isn’t common anymore. )
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To: Mariner; All

I bet he could lock the doors to all the labs for a year and there would be ZERO impact on any American.


14 posted on 09/06/2025 5:27:20 PM PDT by Cobra64 (ECommon sense isn’t common anymore. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I love and support what Kennedy is doing but unfortunately Trump seems to be listening to the wrong people.

Died Suddenly
@DiedSuddenly_
NEW: President Trump breaks from RFK on vaccine ban after dinner with Bill Gates at White House.

“I think you have to be very careful when you said that some people don’t have to be vaccinated. They’re just, pure and simple — they work. They’re not controversial at all. And I think those vaccines should be used.”
https://x.com/DiedSuddenly_/status/1964391062731964853


15 posted on 09/06/2025 5:42:41 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

644-page document listing tests and submission requirements for nasty infectious agents:

https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/124120/cdc_124120_DS1.pdf


16 posted on 09/06/2025 6:10:15 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

https://www.cdc.gov/media/media/b-roll/cdc-operations-and-facilities.html


17 posted on 09/06/2025 6:13:16 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“...Why the world is watching RFK’s fight with US health agency...”

The communist BBC thinks they can speak for the world. No normal person in Africa or in the Eurasia land mass gives a shit about your claims Jim Reed.

The only ones who care are the money grubbing parasites who expect the American taxpayer to pay for those foreign slush fund healthcare schemes.

That gravy train is coming to a screeching halt, at long last.


18 posted on 09/06/2025 6:14:15 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Much of their work seems to do with food-borne illness:

https://www.cdc.gov/media/site.html#find-information


19 posted on 09/06/2025 6:15:09 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Jane Long

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Texas has banned the CCP and foreign adversaries from owning farmland in their state. The law is in full effect.

Every state must do this. And it shouldn't be controversial. pic.twitter.com/LjdKnLTl7q— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 6, 2025


20 posted on 09/06/2025 9:50:31 PM PDT by combat_boots
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