Will McDuffie

Story for @ABC on the dismissals of top deputies at America's health department. abcnews.go.com/Politics/rober…

RFK Jr has axed two top deputies, @ABC has learned. Heather Flick, chief of staff, and Hannah Anderson, deputy chief of staff for policy, are gone, according to an HHS spokesperson and someone else familiar with the moves. W/ @Kjwalsh_news

SCOOP: Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) has told people close to him he won't challenge Josh Shapiro for Pennsylvania governor next year, weeks after President Trump said he'd endorse the congressman if he entered the race. for @ABC abcnews.go.com/Politics/weeks…

Expanding on this proposal, Sec. Kennedy said on the Lousiana governor’s podcast that he’ll tell medical schools they need to implement “a really good, robust nutrition course” in their “first year curriculum.”

Susan Monarez, RFK Jr's CDC nominee, in her confirmation hearing: "I have not seen a causal link between vaccines and autism."

Strong from the president this morning - He tells me: "We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard, that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Do you understand that?"

NEW: The 17 members of a federal vaccine committee, ousted last week by RFK Jr., argue in a @JAMA_current editorial that their abrupt dismissal has "left the U.S. vaccine program critically weakened." w/ @YouriBenadjaoud for @ABC abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-vac…

A little on Melissa Hortman’s personal and political legacy, through the eyes of some who loved her most. Now on @ABC abcnews.go.com/Politics/minne…

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins, a member of the MAHA commission, admits there were flaws in the report "There's no doubt that we could do better" Rollins originally praised the MAHA report

I asked HHS Sec RFK Jr today what's next for vaccine policy now that he's removed all of the current members from CDC's advisory panel. "We're going to be bringing people onto the ACIP panel — not anti-vaxxers — we're bringing people on who are credentialed scientists," he said

“None of us saw this coming.” Dr. Noel Brewer, former voting member of CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, discusses his firing after HHS Sec. RFK Jr. made the decision to remove all sitting members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee.

Formal notice given to an ACIP member after RFK Jr. announced the termination of all 17 in the vaccine advisory group. @ABC

RFK Jr. said he'll tell medical schools to teach nutrition or lose federal funding. The proposal, which the health secretary mentioned in passing at an April event, so far lacks details but drew optimism from some nutrition experts. More @ABC:abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk-j…

NEW: Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith says she has concerns about the MAHA Commission report's language around pesticides. Two days ago, RFK Jr. assured her that drafts of the document didn't have "a single word in them that should worry the American farmer."

.@ABC: RFK Jr. will testify today in front of the Senate health committee and its chairman Bill Cassidy, whose opposition to Kennedy’s views on vaccines threatened RFK’s confirmation in February. On their relationship and today’s hearing, w/ @MaryKekatos abcnews.go.com/Health/rfk-jr-…

The NSC statement to ABC News on the signal chat — “At this time, the message thread that was reported appears to be authentic, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain.“

White House has pulled the nomination of Dave Weldon, a former Florida congressman who was President Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Disease Control, just hours before his scheduled confirmation hearing, multiple sources tell ABC News. @wrmcduff @KFaulders

RFK Jr. told the CEOs of major food companies Monday he wants them to remove artificial food dyes from their products before the end of his first term, the head of an industry trade group wrote in a memo to members reviewed by @ABC. w/ @AnneKFlaherty abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk-j…