As massive changes are underway, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has triggered leftist David Axelrod into a full-blown meltdown.
Specifically, the secretary boldly reformed a key vaccine advisory committee last week.
He fired all 17 members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and replaced them with eight new experts.
The move immediately triggered panic from liberal establishment figures, including Axelrod.
The former Obama strategist dramatically called the changes a “catastrophe” despite Kennedy’s commitment to evidence-based medicine and scientific integrity.
Kennedy’s decisive action represents a significant shift toward accountability in public health leadership after years of questionable CDC recommendations that many Americans have increasingly distrusted.
The reformed panel will meet on June 25 to discuss COVID-19 vaccines and review current immunization schedules.
The move seeks to bring fresh perspectives to policies that the pharmaceutical industry’s influence has dominated.
This restructuring fulfills President Trump’s promise to drain the administrative state of bureaucrats who have lost touch with everyday Americans.
Axelrod immediately took to social media to condemn Kennedy’s actions in apocalyptic terms.
“This is a genuine catastrophe in the making,” Axelrod wrote on X. His reaction highlights how deeply the left fears losing control over public health narratives.
“Vaccines have eradicated diseases that ravaged mankind since the beginning of recorded history. Now one twisted ideologue in a position of power threatens to take us backward. God help us all!” he added.
Kennedy has emphasized that the new appointees are highly credentialed medical professionals committed to evidence-based medicine.
Unlike the previous committee, which routinely recommended increasingly aggressive vaccination schedules without adequate safety testing, the new panel brings diverse expertise and fresh perspectives to vaccine policy.
Critics like former Surgeon General Jerome Adams claim these changes “undermine confidence” in health systems.
Kennedy has even stated his personal views on vaccines are “irrelevant” to the committee’s work.
The secretary recently ended controversial CDC recommendations for COVID-19 vaccination for pregnant women and healthy children.
Many medical experts had questioned these policies due to limited safety data and the extremely low risk of severe COVID in young, healthy populations.
The restructuring comes as Americans increasingly demand transparency and accountability from public health institutions after years of shifting guidance, suppressed debate, and failures during the COVID pandemic.
By streamlining the committee from 17 to 8 members, Kennedy is cutting bureaucratic bloat while ensuring diverse medical perspectives are represented.
