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The Guardian - US
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Jessica Glenza

Michael Bloomberg urges Republicans to oust RFK Jr, ‘peddler of junk science’

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The health secretary, Robert F Kennedy, left, and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. Composite: Getty Images

Billionaire, former New York City mayor and philanthropist Michael Bloomberg is calling on Senate Republicans to oust Robert F Kennedy Jr from his post as Trump’s health secretary.

Kennedy was arguably the nation’s most prominent conspiracy theorist and vaccine skeptic when he was confirmed by the Senate, and he has spent much of his tenure throwing vaccine policy into upheaval amid an historic measles outbreak.

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