Sarah Smith
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5d ago
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Vaccines have reentered the mainstream of American politics again this week, and that's because Donald Trump signed an executive order which is calling for fewer vaccines to be given to American children.
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It's just the latest attempt from the White House to try and change the way the vaccine schedule is administered in the United States because, according to the President, it's been putting children in danger.
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Now Donald Trump's claims are in many cases factually inaccurate and without evidence, but they are something he has stuck to for years and years and has been trying to push through as policy, despite the fact his own advisors are deeply worried about this ahead of midterm elections because it's not something that polls well at all.
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So why is he so determined to try and push through these changes when it could cost crucial votes?
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Welcome to Americast.
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Hello, it's Sarah in the
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And we have convened to talk about uh childhood vaccines and the fact that vaccine policy is back in the headlines and back in the political mainstream in the United States because Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines and recommending that the MMR shots for measles, mumps, and rubella be split up rather than administered all at one time.
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So this is trying to end decades of federal government.
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guidance on which vaccines should be administered to children, and he's calling on states to reconsider vaccine mandates from schools.
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And he did this with R.K.
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Jr., his health secretary, standing behind him in the Oval Office.
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He has long cast doubt on the safety of the MMR vaccine and connected it to autism, as has Donald Trump, despite the fact that multiple studies have found no connection between the shots and
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autism.
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And so why is the President doing this now?
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Well let's have a listen to him as he was announcing that executive order this week in the Oval Office.
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I mean of course you've explained to us many times before the way in which conspiracy theories are particularly um vulnerable to to going around and round and round on the internet and why people get swept up in them.
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But I mean we have been talking for decades about the fact that this has been debunked by science.
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Why will it not die?
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