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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The RFK Jr. Purge at the CDC Vaccine Panel

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removes all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, alleging ethics concerns and conflicts of interest. Do those claims hold water, or is RFK Jr. merely feeding vaccine skepticism? Plus, Donald Trump says the U.S. has reached a trade deal with China. What are the details? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:39.0

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removes all the members of a federal vaccine advisory panel, citing ethics concerns and proclaiming a, quote, clean sweep.

0:52.5

Meantime, President Trump announces the U.S. and China have struck a deal on trade,

0:57.5

though many of the terms still not publicly announced.

1:01.3

Welcome. I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

1:04.9

We're joined today by my colleague, columnist Alicia Finley.

1:09.1

In an op-ed on Tuesday, RFK Jr. announced that he was removing all 17 members

1:14.8

of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, saying this, quote, without removing the

1:22.1

current members, the current Trump administration would not have been able to appoint a majority of new members until

1:28.3

28, unquote. Let's listen to a bit of RFK Jr. in the Oval Office on Tuesday, explaining what

1:35.9

his goal here is. Today, a compliant child must take between 69 and 92 vaccines to stay in school on some states.

1:47.6

And not one of them has been safety tested in a pre-licensing placebo control trial.

1:53.1

And that is just malpractice.

1:56.4

So the people who are in charge of that are now gone and we're going to bring people onto the

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