House Democrat Files Articles of Impeachment Against RFK Jr.

Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) announced that she introduced articles of impeachment against HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday.

The articles of impeachment contend that Kennedy "has imperiled the health and safety of the American people, eroded public confidence in the nation's public health institutions, and stalled decades of scientific and medical progress."

Stevens pointed to a series of actions taken by Kennedy, including cutting funding for lifesaving research; restricting access to COVID vaccines for pregnant women and healthy children; and firing all 17 previous members of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and replacing them with a smaller handpicked group.

Stevens' move closely follows the 2-day ACIP meeting last week, during which the panel discussed shrinking the childhood vaccination schedule and setting up a workgroup to assess the safety of aluminum adjuvants in vaccines, on top of voting to drop the recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine for all babies at birth.