But hey, the jobs numbers are already tanking, so it wouldn’t hurt for Donald Trump to fire one more person—specifically Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.:
The surgeon general from the first Trump administration on Saturday said that the US president should “absolutely” fire health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr over his “dangerous” policies on vaccines and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Jerome Adams, who has become a pointed critic of the public health decisions being swiftly rolled out in the second Trump administration, made his most fierce attack yet on what has been unfolding.
“He’s putting us at risk,” Adams said of RFK Jr, adding that Kennedy is “endangering America at large” with moves to limit access to vaccines, such as shots to protect against the deadly Covid-19 virus [Joanna Walters, “Trump’s Former Surgeon General Urges President to Fire RFK Jr,” The Guardian, 2025.09.06].
Kennedy’s effort to deny Americans covid-19 vaccines ignores the proven effectiveness of vaccines that saved 2.5 million lives. Kennedy’s broader anti-vaccine campaign will deny millions of Americans life and real freedom:
For decades, the Republican Party has called for the dismantling of government regulations with the argument that such regulations were destroying American freedom. As Ronald Reagan put it in 1964 in his speech supporting Barry Goldwater for president, on the one hand there was “individual freedom consistent with law and order,” and on the other hand was “the ant heap of totalitarianism.”
But the fight over vaccines illustrates the difference between freedom from government overreach and freedom to build a life that is not cramped by preventable obstacles. The CDC estimates that between 1994 and 2003, childhood vaccinations prevented 32 million hospitalizations and 1,129,000 deaths among children, and saved at least $540 billion. Removing those vaccines removes the individual freedom to determine one’s future [Heather Cox Richardson, blog post, Letters from an American, 2025.09.25].
Trump and Kennedy promise us freedom and health; they are delivering the opposite. We need to fire both of these menaces before they crash America on the reefs of ignorance.
There should be strict laws on qualifications for some (all?) heads of these departments, especially HHS. What a clown show. Shame on Congress for allowing this to happen (Thune, Rounds, Johnson, are you all asleep??? What the hell.)