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We Got This Covered
Jonathan Wright

Trump’s got 99 problems, but fast-tracking RFK Jr.’s bid to strip Hep B vaccine from newborns is somehow at the top of the White House agenda

Of all the crises demanding presidential attention—you know, economic instability, international tensions, actual governing, the usual—President Trump decided this Friday that the real emergency is too many babies getting vaccinated against a potentially deadly liver disease.

Mere hours after his hand-picked CDC vaccine advisory panel (RFK Jr. got rid of all 17 sitting members in 2025) voted to gut decades-old hepatitis B recommendations for newborns, Trump signed a presidential memorandum ordering the health secretary to fast-track a comprehensive review of childhood vaccine schedules, because apparently, what America really, really, really needs right now is more unvaccinated infants.

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