Senator Bill Cassidy Avoids Regret Over Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Confirmation Vote Amidst Vaccine Policy Changes
Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.) has continued to avoid directly admitting regret for his decisive vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), despite Kennedy's history of vaccine skepticism and recent changes to vaccine policy. Cassidy, a physician and chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, stated that he could not have foreseen Kennedy's actions, including the alteration of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website's 'Autism and Vaccines' page. He also criticized President Trump's recent executive order to split the combined Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine into three separate shots, arguing that this policy will decrease immunization rates, increase inconvenience, and raise costs for families. Cassidy emphasized that the focus should be on increasing immunization rates, not decreasing them, and that the president's policy is 'stupid' and not rooted in science. 
