Republican Senator Bill Cassidy has called out United States Secretary of Health and Human Services RFK Jr. for supposedly baiting him with false promises to garner his vote. The 68-year-old politician slammed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while discussing Donald Trump’s recent executive order regarding the childhood vaccine schedule, going as far as to label the plan as a “stupid policy.”
The Republican senator backed Kennedy after receiving specific assurances about vaccine policy
Bill Cassidy recently sat for an interview with Martha Raddatz on ABC’s ‘This Week.” He threw shade at the president’s latest decision about spacing out childhood immunizations. The senator also insinuated that RFK Jr., a known anti-vaccine activist, misled him to acquire his vote.
Cassidy said of the policy, “Right now, there is not three different vaccines. There’s only these three combined. And why did they combine them? To make it more convenient for the parent, to make fewer jabs for the child.”
He added, “This is why the president’s poll numbers are down, because you’ve lost sight of affordability for the parent. You’ve lost sight of the convenience for the American family. You’ve lost sight of that which is driving higher costs in healthcare — for example, more doctor’s visits.”
Bill Cassidy explained his decision to vote for RFK Jr.. The former noted, “Mr. Kennedy and the administration reached out seeking to reassure me regarding their commitment to protecting the public health benefit of vaccination. He has also committed that he would work within the current vaccine approval and safety monitoring systems, and not establish parallel systems.”
“There are guarantees that were given to me and guarantees that were supposedly going to be enforced by the White House. Among those were not to affect the [Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices] schedule,” he continued.
When asked by Raddatz if RFK Jr. was lying to him, Bill Cassidy responded, “People can draw their own conclusions, but it’s pretty evident that that was the White House and the RFK pledge — RFK may say, technically this is the president, not him, and technically he’s right. But the point is, the American people have been poorly served.”
