Where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is Aligning With His Old Anti-Vaccine Organization

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly said that he’s not anti-vaccine and is taking a “pro-safety” approach as Health and Human Services secretary.

“We encourage people to get the measles vaccine,” he told CBS in an interview broadcast Wednesday, while adding the government shouldn’t “mandate” it.

But the broader changes Kennedy has made since taking over the sprawling health department have followed a different, familiar playbook: the one spearheaded by his old vaccine-skeptical organization.