Trump Action Archive

Supporting reports

• Federal advisory panel votes to recommend scrapping infant hepatitis B vaccine — Kirk Milhoan, chair of the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced the committee would vote Thursday on reversing the decades-old recommendation that newborns receive hepatitis B vaccination within 24 hours of birth. The panel, composed largely of Kennedy appointees skeptical of vaccine science, is also investigating whether childhood immunization schedules contribute to allergies and autoimmune disorders, focusing on aluminum adjuvants despite NIH findings of acceptable risk-benefit ratios.
• CDC ACIP delays vote on restricting infant hepatitis B vaccination — The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) held a contentious meeting on December 4, 2025, to consider restricting hepatitis B vaccination for infants. After heated debate, a motion to delay the vote until December 5 passed 6–3. The committee, reconstituted with Trump-appointed members including anti-vaccine advocates and chaired by Kirk Milhoan (who promoted ivermectin), debated restricting a vaccine that has eliminated 99% of childhood hepatitis B cases since 1990 and carries a documented safety record across 1.4 billion doses over three decades. No new evidence of harm was presented.
• RFK Jr's vaccine advisory panel convenes to consider delaying hepatitis B vaccination for newborns — Robert F Kennedy Jr, US health secretary and anti-vaccine activist, convened his reconstituted vaccine advisory committee on December 4, 2025, to consider reversing decades of federal policy recommending hepatitis B vaccination for all newborns. Kennedy had dismissed all 17 members of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices earlier in 2025 and replaced them with vaccine skeptics aligned with his agenda. The panel has already voted to change influenza vaccine formulations and measles/mumps/rubella/chickenpox vaccination protocols.
• RFK Jr dismisses all members of CDC vaccine advisory committee and replaces them with vaccine skeptics — Earlier in 2025, Robert F Kennedy Jr dismissed all 17 members of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and replaced them with his own appointees, including several vaccine skeptics aligned with his anti-vaccine agenda. This week, the committee's chair Dr Martin Kulldorff departed for another HHS role and was replaced by Dr Kirk Milhoan, a cardiologist critical of Covid-19 vaccines. The reconstituted panel has already voted to change influenza vaccine formulations and measles/mumps/rubella/chickenpox vaccination protocols.
• ACIP votes on restricting infant hepatitis B vaccine recommendation — The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a federal panel that advises the CDC on vaccine policy, held a contentious meeting and prepared to vote on whether to change the longstanding recommendation that all newborns receive hepatitis B vaccination within 24 hours of birth. The vote was delayed twice. The panel, reconstituted by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with vaccine skeptics and anti-vaccine advocates, heard no new evidence of vaccine harm but proceeded toward a vote that could alter decades of immunization guidance affecting 1.4 billion people vaccinated over 30+ years.
• CDC Advisory Committee votes to limit hepatitis B vaccine access to newborns — The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted on December 5, 2025, to restrict hepatitis B vaccination from a routine universal recommendation to a "shared clinical decision-making" model requiring parental consultation with doctors. Most newborns will no longer automatically receive the vaccine at birth; instead, vaccination will be deferred to two months of age or later and made optional rather than standard. The decision marks the first time the CDC has limited access to a decades-old routine vaccination.