Health
2024
2024-02-15 The Creating Hope Reauthorization Act, intended to encourage development of treatments for rare pediatric diseases, faced expiration without action from the administration.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7384
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4583/titles
https://everylifefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Creating-Hope-Reauthorization-Act_ELF.pdf
2025 January
2025-01-29 During a confirmation hearing, Bernie Sanders questioned RFK about his non-profit Children’s Health Defense selling anti-vax propaganda onesies for infants on their website: “Unvaxxed – Unafraid” and “No Vax - No Problem”.
2025-01-31 The administration removed federal health-web resources related to LGBTQ health, adolescent health, HIV, STDs, tuberculosis, civil-rights research, and youth-health monitoring programs.
2025 February
2025-02-01 Democratic Representative Lori Trahan of Massachusetts reintroduced the Accelerating Kids Access to Care Act to improve Medicaid access for children with cancer
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4758
2025-02-03 Congress passed the bipartisan Give Kids a Chance Act to speed development of pediatric cancer drug combinations.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1699227697408915
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=656096720871687
2025 September
2025-09-03 Florida pushed its vaccine bans on schoolchildren.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/health/florida-vaccine-mandates
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7331a2.htm
2025-09-09 RFK unveiled his “Make Our Children Healthy Again” initiative, with a sweeping overhaul to policies based on his version of “gold-standard” pseudoscience.
https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/maha-commission-report-childhood-disease-strategy.html
2025-09-15 Funding for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium was scheduled to expire after March 2026, with the Trump administration halting $4 million annually in federal support.
https://aacrjournals.org/cdnews/news/2629/Pediatric-Brain-Tumor-Initiative-to-End
https://coloradonewsline.com/2025/09/17/childhood-brain-tumor-research-colorado/
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/pediatric-brain-tumor-consortium-disbanding-funding-trump/
https://www.childrensbraintumorproject.org/2025/08/29/nytimes_pbtc/
2025-09-22 Trump claimed without evidence Tylenol was bad for pregnant women, “Don’t take Tylenol. There’s no downside. Don’t take it. You’ll be uncomfortable. It won’t be as easy, maybe, but don’t take it. If you’re pregnant, don’t take Tylenol”.
https://www.fda.gov/media/188843/download
https://jheor.org/post/3465-trump-claims-no-downside-to-avoiding-tylenol-during-pregnancy-he-s-wrong
https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/sep/15/Tylenol-acetaminophen-pregnancy-autism-RFK/
2026 April
2026-04-10 Trump’s 2027 budget will further cut $923M from HIV/AIDS healthcare, $561M from maternal and child health, $576M from mental health including suicide prevention, and $872M from health workforce programs. This would be the single largest spending increase since WWII.
https://healthpolicy-watch.news/ttrump-2027-budget-extends-us-global-and-domestic-health-cuts/
2026 May
2026-05-08 RFK ended a ban on tanning beds for minors.
https://people.com/rfk-jr-hals-proposed-ban-minors-tanning-beds-11969258
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr-tanning-beds-teen-access_l_69fbe0f3e4b06e786e3c3760
2026 August
2026-08-07 Trump signed an Executive Order which both links vaccines to autism and reduces or separates vaccine recommendations. In an efford to fearmonger Trump stated, “…where they have a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda poured into a little child’s body, and bad things happen in many ca, in too many cases, because this an explosion. This is an epidemic”.
TIMESTAMP 4:41 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rQYNOb2nh8&list=WL&index=1&t=268s
https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/vaccines/122557
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-childhood-vaccines-executive-order/
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/10/trump-vaccine-executive-order-autism.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuAZ-CcX1ZA&list=WL&index=2
2026-08-10 Republican Senator Dr. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana criticized Trump’s order to reduce childhood vaccines, stating, “I’m a doctor. This executive order is wrong. The president does not have the expertise to make these changes”.
https://www.pharmexec.com/view/order-cuts-childhood-vaccines-11-report
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6021261-cassidy-trump-mmr-vaccine-order/
2026-08-10 In response to Trump’s reducing childhood vaccines and tying vaccines to autism, The American Academy of Pediatrics stated, “There is no new evidence to justify significant changes to childhood immunization guidance. Dozens of studies involving millions of people show there is no link between vaccines and autism, and yet federal leaders continue to prom9ote this outdated, disproven idea to scare families”.
https://www.wbal.com/pediatricians-push-back-against-presidents-new-vaccine-order