Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

I absolutely will work with you on the PREDICT Act.

It's something that's very personally important to me to have more wastewater surveillance.

And we are also putting $325 million in this budget into a new bio-threat radar system that will integrate with the microbial surveillance wastewater treatment plant to detect pathogens as soon as they emerge in our country and elsewhere in the world.

Secretary Kennedy has a history of anti-vaccine activism.

He has emphasized vaccination as a personal choice rather than encouraging more people to get the measles vaccine as the disease spreads across the country.

Here is Democratic Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware in one committee hearing.

Kennedy said he's done a great job containing the spread of measles and stressed that it's a global problem.

Selina Simmons-Duffin, NPR News, Washington.

Secretary Kennedy has a history of anti-vaccine activism.

He has emphasized vaccination as a personal choice rather than encouraging more people to get the measles vaccine as the disease spreads across the country.

Here is Democratic Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware in one committee hearing.

Kennedy said he's done a great job containing the spread of measles and stressed that it's a global problem.

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina thanked Kennedy for his help containing the outbreak in his state.

Selina Simmons-Duffin, NPR News, Washington.

Now, so she will have, if she wishes to make a decision independently of them, she shall be allowed to make that decision independently.

That's correct?

I think that what it shows is that voters want to take a stand against so much of the chaos that they see in Washington that's impacting their lives.

And the sort of gamesmanship that the president has pursued, they don't want that going uncontested.

And we had the opportunity with the votes of the people, with a referendum, to take a stand and push back against that.

Will the new director, whoever she is, have the right to make decisions independently of those political appointees and or replace them or otherwise reassign them so they cannot continue to actively undermine trust in immunizations?