{"id":55519,"date":"2025-09-06T19:42:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/trump-supports-kennedy-s-vaccine-stance-despite-health-concerns\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T19:55:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:55:03","slug":"trump-supports-kennedy-s-vaccine-stance-despite-health-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/trump-supports-kennedy-s-vaccine-stance-despite-health-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump supports Kennedy\u2019s vaccine stance despite health concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump told reporters: \u201cI stand with Bobby. He\u2019s not afraid to challenge the establishment. He means well, and he\u2019s doing what he believes is right for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, a longtime critic of vaccines, has taken sweeping steps since assuming office. His policies have included cutting funding for vaccine research, restricting access to COVID-19 vaccines, and dismissing top officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).<\/p>\n<p>Appearing before the Senate, Kennedy defended his measures. \u201cFor too long, our agencies have been captured by pharmaceutical interests,\u201d he said. \u201cMy mission is to restore transparency and give Americans the freedom to make their own choices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy\u2019s agenda has triggered dissent from within his own family. In a public statement, relatives including Joe Kennedy III and Kerry Kennedy urged him to resign. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love Bobby, but we cannot support policies that put public health at risk. His leadership is fostering confusion and weakening trust in science,\u201d they said according tp reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Public health experts also warn that Kennedy\u2019s actions could reverse decades of progress. A former CDC official said: \u201cDismantling vaccine research and replacing experts with loyalists is a recipe for disaster. We risk losing decades of progress in immunization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the backlash, Trump has continued to praise his health secretary. \u201cHe\u2019s tough. He\u2019s independent. And he\u2019s not afraid to speak the truth,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, for his part, has vowed to stay the course. \u201cThis is not about politics,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is about the health and freedom of Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-93971\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pe-3.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday defended Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., backing his controversial approach to vaccines even as critics warn of mounting risks to public health and to Trump\u2019s own political standing.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday defended Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., backing his controversial approach to vaccines even as critics warn of mounting risks to public health and to Trump\u2019s own political standing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000093970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[201],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-rania-umutoni"],"bylines":[{"id":201,"name":"Rania Umutoni","slug":"rania-umutoni","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":139}],"contributors":[{"id":201,"name":"Rania Umutoni","slug":"rania-umutoni","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":139}],"featured_image":{"id":2000093970,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pe.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pe.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pe.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pe.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pe.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pe.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000093970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55519"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55519"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}