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(DC Pundit) – President Donald Trump is reportedly pressing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to take a harder look at the childhood vaccine schedule, and according to the Wall Street Journal, the president is not letting up on the issue.
Citing people “familiar with the matter,” the WSJ reported that Trump asked Kennedy in May “why he wasn’t doing more to probe the alleged connection between vaccines and autism.” The report claims Kennedy was “taken aback,” having apparently been advised to dial back vaccine talk ahead of the midterm elections. That restraint appears to conflict directly with Trump’s own priorities. “The president steers nearly every conversation with his health secretary back to the issue, some of the people said,” according to the outlet.
Trump’s goal, per the report, is to reduce the number of vaccines on the federal childhood immunization schedule and update the guidance accordingly. The driving force behind this push is the alarming rise in autism rates among American children, a trend that has accelerated dramatically over the past quarter century. As of 2020, the autism rate among 8-year-olds stood at 1 in 36. It has since gotten worse. Last year, Kennedy announced a series of studies to identify “precisely what environmental toxins” are causing autism, noting the rate had climbed to 1 in 31 children.
Kennedy has been unambiguous about the severity of the situation. “The epidemic is real,” he said. “Instead of listening to this canard of epidemic denial, all you have to do is start reading a little science, because the answer is very clear, and this is catastrophic for our country. This is added to already astronomical healthcare costs. And then there’s an individual injury. These are kids that — this is a preventable disease. We know it’s an environmental exposure. It has to be. Genes do not cause epidemics.”
.@SecKennedy: "The [autism] epidemic is real. Only a very small percentage of it can be charged to better recognition or better diagnostic criteria… This is catastrophic for our country… We're going to find the answer." pic.twitter.com/7tq9Il8nK8
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 16, 2025
While the left continues to attack Kennedy, he has been consistent in stating that his goal is ensuring the public has “good information” — a concept that apparently terrifies a certain segment of the media establishment.
Trump himself has been vocal on the subject. In September, he held a press conference with health officials warning pregnant women against using acetaminophen, commonly known as Tylenol, during pregnancy due to what he described as a “very increased risk of autism.” He also noted: “I think I can say that there are certain groups of people that don’t take vaccines and don’t take any pills that have no autism. That have no autism. Does that tell you something?”
Kennedy responded by referencing the Amish population: “There are some studies that suggest that. Yeah, with the Amish for example.”
.@DrMakaryFDA: "This is the start of a historic shift in medical culture… Today, the @US_FDA is taking action to update the label on acetaminophen, and sending a letter to all U.S. doctors letting them know about the risks in pregnancy." pic.twitter.com/EbXpu1fU0D
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 22, 2025
Trump has been clear that he supports vaccines but wants more honest scrutiny of whether certain ones may be harmful. That is not an unreasonable position for a president overseeing a country where 1 in 31 children now has autism.
The administration has already taken meaningful action. The CDC removed the coronavirus vaccine from the recommended immunization schedule for healthy children and pregnant women. Kennedy announced the removal of a mercury-based preservative from flu shots. And in March, Trump signed an executive order formally acknowledging a recent HHS scientific assessment on childhood vaccines as a guiding resource for the federal government.
Today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from @CDCgov recommended immunization schedule. Bottom line: it’s common sense and it’s good science. We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS’s promise to Make America Healthy Again. pic.twitter.com/Ytch2afCLP
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) May 27, 2025
After more than 20 years of delay, I’m proud to finally deliver on a long-overdue promise: protecting our most vulnerable from unnecessary mercury exposure. pic.twitter.com/rYF5BN8JYj
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) August 2, 2025
The current childhood vaccine schedule has infants receiving over a dozen doses in the first six months of life. Including the annual flu shot and COVID jab, children would receive upwards of 72 injections by age 18. Asking whether that schedule deserves a fresh look is not anti-science.
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