Sign and send a letter to your U.S. senators urging them to demand that RFK Jr. resign.
On Friday, December 5, the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) panel of vaccine advisors, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), voted to do away with its longstanding recommendation that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine.
The current members of the ACIP were handpicked by Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in June and September of 2025, after he fired all of the previous members. Kennedy packed the ACIP largely with vaccine skeptics, and then successfully ousted CDC Director Susan Monarez when she refused to rubber stamp the recommendations made by the committee.
After the ACIP dropped the recommendation for all newborns to receive the hepatitis B vaccine, Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a liver doctor, wrote "Before the birth dose was recommended, 20,000 newborns a year were infected with hepatitis B. Now, it’s fewer than 20. Ending the recommendation for newborns makes it more likely the number of cases will begin to increase again. This makes America sicker." It should be noted that Sen. Cassidy was the deciding vote to confirm RFK Jr., after he was the subject of a pressure campaign from Donald Trump and his allies. Cassidy should have demonstrated courage when it mattered.
This is hardly the first action RFK Jr. has taken against vaccines during this tenure as Secretary of Health and Human Services. In August, he canceled $500 million in research on mRNA vaccines. He has also instructed the CDC to change the language on its website about vaccines and autism, implying a possible link between the two.
It is embarrassing and dangerous to have a longtime, prominent vaccine skeptic like RFK Jr. running the federal Department of Health and Human Services. It is long past time that he be shown the door. However, Donald Trump won't do that, because he and his team of advisors believe that they need to be nice to RFK Jr. in order to keep his supporters in the Republican fold. In other words, and in yet another sign of his increasing weakness, Donald Trump is actually beholden to RFK Jr., not the other way around.
To weaken, and hopefully to eventually remove, RFK Jr., it will take a loud chorus of powerful members of the U.S. Senate of both parties to speak up and call for his resignation. Please, take a minute to write a quick letter to your U.S. senators today, urging them to do exactly that.
Sign and send a letter to your U.S. senators urging them to demand that RFK Jr. resign.
Notes on letter campaigns:
–You may want to slightly alter the subject line and letter text, so as to better help your message in being received by your members of Congress.
–You do not have to use the pre-written letter. You can also write your own letter, if you wish.
–In order to send your letter, you will have to choose a topic. However, topic lists are maintained by each congressional office, and thus I do not know which topics you will have to choose from. You will have to use your best judgement.
–After you send your letters, you will be redirected to an ActBlue page for Bowers Kerbel Media, the organization that operates both the Bowers News Media news and action email list and the Wolves and Sheep political analysis and practical life advice Substack. However, no donation is required, and if you see this page your letters have already been sent.
The current members of the ACIP were handpicked by Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in June and September of 2025, after he fired all of the previous members. Kennedy packed the ACIP largely with vaccine skeptics, and then successfully ousted CDC Director Susan Monarez when she refused to rubber stamp the recommendations made by the committee.
After the ACIP dropped the recommendation for all newborns to receive the hepatitis B vaccine, Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a liver doctor, wrote "Before the birth dose was recommended, 20,000 newborns a year were infected with hepatitis B. Now, it’s fewer than 20. Ending the recommendation for newborns makes it more likely the number of cases will begin to increase again. This makes America sicker." It should be noted that Sen. Cassidy was the deciding vote to confirm RFK Jr., after he was the subject of a pressure campaign from Donald Trump and his allies. Cassidy should have demonstrated courage when it mattered.
This is hardly the first action RFK Jr. has taken against vaccines during this tenure as Secretary of Health and Human Services. In August, he canceled $500 million in research on mRNA vaccines. He has also instructed the CDC to change the language on its website about vaccines and autism, implying a possible link between the two.
It is embarrassing and dangerous to have a longtime, prominent vaccine skeptic like RFK Jr. running the federal Department of Health and Human Services. It is long past time that he be shown the door. However, Donald Trump won't do that, because he and his team of advisors believe that they need to be nice to RFK Jr. in order to keep his supporters in the Republican fold. In other words, and in yet another sign of his increasing weakness, Donald Trump is actually beholden to RFK Jr., not the other way around.
To weaken, and hopefully to eventually remove, RFK Jr., it will take a loud chorus of powerful members of the U.S. Senate of both parties to speak up and call for his resignation. Please, take a minute to write a quick letter to your U.S. senators today, urging them to do exactly that.
Sign and send a letter to your U.S. senators urging them to demand that RFK Jr. resign.
Notes on letter campaigns:
–You may want to slightly alter the subject line and letter text, so as to better help your message in being received by your members of Congress.
–You do not have to use the pre-written letter. You can also write your own letter, if you wish.
–In order to send your letter, you will have to choose a topic. However, topic lists are maintained by each congressional office, and thus I do not know which topics you will have to choose from. You will have to use your best judgement.
–After you send your letters, you will be redirected to an ActBlue page for Bowers Kerbel Media, the organization that operates both the Bowers News Media news and action email list and the Wolves and Sheep political analysis and practical life advice Substack. However, no donation is required, and if you see this page your letters have already been sent.
