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More than 1,000 current and former HHS officials demand RFK Jr.'s resignation
There’s no modern precedent for a sizable contingent of federal civil servants calling for the nation’s health secretary to quit.
More than 1,000 current and former HHS officials demand RFK Jr.’s resignation www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
— @jimrissmiller.bsky.social 2025-09-04T21:51:39.910Z
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/1000-current-former-hhs-officials-demand-rfk-jrs-resignation-rcna229103
The newest installment, however, is arguably the most dramatic. USA Today reported:
The effort was an escalation of sorts. Two weeks earlier, several hundred HHS staffers urged the conspiratorially-minded health secretary to start prioritizing federal health workers’ safety and curtail his habit of “spreading inaccurate health information.”
Soon after, Kennedy helped to orchestrate the firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez, which further destabilized the agency and raised unprecedented questions about whether the CDC would survive Kennedy’s tenure and Donald Trump’s second term.
And so, current and former HHS officials have kicked things up a notch and are demanding Kennedy’s resignation.
“We swore an oath to support and defend the United States Constitution and to serve the American people,” the signatories wrote. “Our oath requires us to speak out when the Constitution is violated and the American people are put at risk. Thus, we warn the President, Congress, and the Public that Secretary Kennedy’s actions are compromising the health of this nation, and we demand Secretary Kennedy’s resignation.
“Should he decline to resign, we call upon the President and U.S. Congress to appoint a new Secretary of Health and Human Services, one whose qualifications and experience ensure that health policy is informed by independent and unbiased peer-reviewed science. We expect those in leadership to act when the health of Americans is at stake.”
A group of more than 1,000 current and former Department of Health and Human Services employees released a letter on Sept. 3 demanding Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s resignation. ... The letter, which is addressed to Kennedy and members of Congress, argues the secretary ‘continues to endanger the nation’s health.’
The effort was an escalation of sorts. Two weeks earlier, several hundred HHS staffers urged the conspiratorially-minded health secretary to start prioritizing federal health workers’ safety and curtail his habit of “spreading inaccurate health information.”
Soon after, Kennedy helped to orchestrate the firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez, which further destabilized the agency and raised unprecedented questions about whether the CDC would survive Kennedy’s tenure and Donald Trump’s second term.
And so, current and former HHS officials have kicked things up a notch and are demanding Kennedy’s resignation.
“We swore an oath to support and defend the United States Constitution and to serve the American people,” the signatories wrote. “Our oath requires us to speak out when the Constitution is violated and the American people are put at risk. Thus, we warn the President, Congress, and the Public that Secretary Kennedy’s actions are compromising the health of this nation, and we demand Secretary Kennedy’s resignation.
“Should he decline to resign, we call upon the President and U.S. Congress to appoint a new Secretary of Health and Human Services, one whose qualifications and experience ensure that health policy is informed by independent and unbiased peer-reviewed science. We expect those in leadership to act when the health of Americans is at stake.”
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