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Three Democratic governors on the West Coast are banding together to sidestep President Donald Trump’s health agenda – a move the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) blasted as rooted in the “failed politics of the pandemic.”
The governors have decided to reject Trump’s CDC rules and create their own vaccine guidelines, potentially putting state policies at odds with federal guidance.
“Democrat-run states that pushed unscientific school lockdowns, toddler mask mandates, and draconian vaccine passports during the COVID era completely eroded the American people’s trust in public health agencies,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told Fox News Digital on Thursday.
Nixon added the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) “remains the scientific body guiding immunization recommendations in this country,” and that the health department “will ensure policy is based on rigorous evidence and Gold Standard Science.”
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom and two other Democrat governors are forming a health alliance to defy Trump’s CDC guidelines. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
All 17 members of the ACIP were dismissed in June as HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. vowed to “restore public trust” in vaccine guidance.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, and Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson launched the West Coast Health Alliance Wednesday, just a day before Kennedy testified on vaccines before the Senate Finance Committee. The hearing comes just a month after CDC Director Susan Monarez was fired.
“President Trump’s mass firing of CDC doctors and scientists — and his blatant politicization of the agency — is a direct assault on the health and safety of the American people,” the governors said in a joint statement. “The CDC has become a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science, ideology…
