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@ABC News | Former educator | @DavidsonCollege alum
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Joined November 2019
Story for @ABC on the dismissals of top deputies at America's health department.
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Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has fired two top deputies at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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.
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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.
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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
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Meuser has recently told associates he will not enter the race to challenge Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, sources said.
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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.”.
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:
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Susan Monarez, RFK Jr's CDC nominee, in her confirmation hearing:. "I have not seen a causal link between vaccines and autism.".
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RT @rachelvscott: Strong from the president this morning -.He tells me:."We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long an….
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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
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The 17 members of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee, who were ousted last week, argued their abrupt dismissal has "left the U.S. vaccine program critically weakened."
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RT @brittanys: A little on Melissa Hortman’s personal and political legacy, through the eyes of some who loved her most. Now on @ABC. https….
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"It's like losing a sister," one colleague said.
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RT @sambbenson: Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins, a member of the MAHA commission, admits there were flaws in the report. "There's no doubt that….
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RT @cheyennehaslett: 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'….
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RT @ABCNewsLive: “None of us saw this coming.” . Dr. Noel Brewer, former voting member of CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice….
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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:
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to tell medical schools they must offer nutrition courses to students or risk losing federal funding from the DHS.
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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."
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.@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
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to testify before two congressional committees on Wednesday.
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“There were a number of instances where studies that should have not have been cut were cut, and we've reinstated them. Personnel that should not have been cut were cut, we're reinstating them, and that was always the plan.".
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NEW: RFK Jr. tells ABC's @cheyennehaslett he is reinstating some HHS programs that were mistakenly cut this week. “There were some programs that were cuts that are being reinstated, and I believe that that's one," he said, referencing an axed CDC lead monitoring program.
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RT @hannahdemissie: The NSC statement to ABC News on the signal chat — “At this time, the message thread that was reported appears to be au….
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RT @bensiegel: White House has pulled the nomination of Dave Weldon, a former Florida congressman who was President Trump’s pick to lead th….
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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
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told food industry leaders in a closed-door meeting he wants them to remove artificial color dyes from their products by the end his time in office.
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