Trump Action Archive

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• RFK Jr's remade vaccine panel votes to restrict thimerosal in flu shots — Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr unilaterally fired all 17 members of the CDC's Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) in June 2025 and appointed eight ideological allies. On 26 June, the reconstituted panel voted 5–1–1 to recommend against thimerosal, a preservative used in about 5% of multidose flu vaccine vials, despite decades of scientific evidence showing no real-world harm. The decision bypassed a CDC career scientist presentation on thimerosal safety and instead featured a presentation from an anti-vaccine advocate whose work contained a fabricated study reference.

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• RFK Jr unilaterally appoints eight new members to CDC vaccine advisory panel (ACIP) — Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr unilaterally appointed eight new members to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), replacing 17 previous members. The new chair, Dr Martin Kulldorff, was fired from Harvard for refusing COVID-19 vaccination. The first meeting revealed conflicts of interest disclosure gaps, agenda changes removing a COVID-19 booster vote, and the formation of two new working groups to re-examine vaccine schedules and long-approved vaccines—issues historically promoted by anti-vaccine advocates.
• RFK Jr fires all 17 career members of vaccine advisory panel and appoints ideological replacements — Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr unilaterally dismissed all 17 career scientists and CDC-vetted members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) in June 2025 and replaced them with eight ideological allies, including vaccine skeptics and medical professionals with limited vaccine expertise. One newly appointed panelist subsequently withdrew after a government financial review and public disclosure that the secretary's claims about the panelist's university affiliations were false. The action consolidated Kennedy's control over vaccine recommendations that shape national policy and insurance coverage.

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• Case update — D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (D. Mass.) 1:25-cv-10676 — The Supreme Court stopped a lower court's order which has prevented the administration from removing immigrants to third countries without an opportunity to present their claims of potential torture first. The Supreme Court's order is now in place while the litigation proceeds. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented.
• CDC presentation included nonexistent vaccine study — On June 24, a presentation scheduled for Thursday's meeting of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was found to have included a study that does not appear to exist after it was published on the agency's website. The presentation by Lyn Redwood, a former leader of an anti-vaccine group, claimed that the nonexistent study found that the vaccine preservative thimerosal can have "long-term consequences in the brain."
• ACIP agenda cites study that author says was not conducted or published — The ACIP panel's new agenda cited a study that the cited author stated he did not conduct or publish, according to Reuters reporting. This continues a pattern of Kennedy's health department producing references to garbled or nonexistent studies while Kennedy repeatedly touts "gold-standard" science.