Susan Monarez said Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to change routine childhood vaccines this month — without any credible scientific data.
Monarez said Kennedy told her to pre-emptively approve vaccine recommendations from a committee that contains anti-vaccine activists and that he was "very upset" when she said no.
This spring, the Trump administration rescinded a grant that maintained FlyBase, a pillar of global basic research, as part of its broader $2.2 billion funding cuts at Harvard.