RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Silence: Trump Administration Memo Shows Why (1)

April 9, 2026, 1:27 PM UTC

The Trump administration is putting Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on a low-risk messaging diet ahead of the midterm election.

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The Secretary of Health and Human Services has publicly and notably swallowed his trademark vaccine skepticism in recent weeks, even in front of the friendliest audiences.

At last month’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas — one of the biggest gatherings for the right on the calendar — Kennedy insisted President Donald Trump had an “encyclopedic, molecular knowledge” of Broadway and claimed he saw him draw a map of the Middle East from memory — but offered nary a mention of his one-time ...

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