RFK Jr. defends firing spree at CDC, vows ‘new blood’ at agency

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended the Trump administration's firing spree at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, promising "new blood" will soon take over the agency.

"America is home to 4.2% of the world's population, yet we had nearly 20% COVID deaths," Kennedy said Thursday in front of the Senate Finance Committee. "We literally did worse than any country in the world."

Kennedy said CDC leaders "who oversaw that process, who put masks on our children, who closed our schools, are the people who will be leaving."

"And that's why we need bold, competent and creative new leadership at CDC," he continued. "People are able and willing to chart a new course. As my father once said, progress is a nice word, a change that's a motivator. And change has its enemies. That's why we need new blood at the CDC."

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