RFK's War on Vaccines Is a Political Loser

About this episode

Mona Charen and Jonathan Cohn discuss the implications of RFK Jr.'s leadership on public health and the political landscape surrounding vaccine policies.

Jonathan Cohn joins Mona to discuss the growing public health crisis under RFK Jr.’s leadership at HHS. From vaccine rollbacks to misinformation about autism and common medications, they walk through how policy decisions are already affecting real people—and why diseases like measles are making a comeback. They also look at the politics: internal pushback inside the Trump orbit, warning signs from polling, and whether any of this can be stopped before the damage spreads further.

People in this episode

Guest: Jonathan Cohn

Topics covered

• vaccines
• public health
• politics
• misinformation
• measles

Keywords

• RFK Jr.
• HHS
• autism
• Trump
• polling

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