{"id":1234,"date":"2026-07-27T12:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2026-07-27T12:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:07:37","slug":"it-looks-like-sen-bill-cassidy-is-hurting-public-health-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=1234","title":{"rendered":"It Looks Like Sen. Bill Cassidy Is Hurting Public Health Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Sen. Bill Cassidy<\/span> on Thursday expressed his support for Erica Schwartz, President Trump\u2019s pick for CDC director, he signaled that he may once again cast a critical vote for a candidate that poses a risk to US public health.<\/p>

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At her confirmation hearing earlier this month, Schwartz, who has a medical degree,sidestepped questions on whether she would resist pressure from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to carry out policies that she believed contradicted scientific evidence.<\/p>\n

After this, Cassidy, a physician and chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, withheld his support of Schwartz. But on Thursday, he pivoted, telling committee members: \u201cI\u2019m confident that she knows what she is doing and will stand against those who do not.\u201d The Louisiana senator said he now trusts Schwartz after they spoke privately, and after federal officials made a \u201cgood faith\u201d change to the CDC\u2019s website that linked vaccines and autism. The webpage still cites the retracted study that makes this vaccine-autism link, and now includes an asterisk with a note that \u201cScientists have not identified the root causes of autism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The page also still states that \u201cstudies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.\u201d This idea has been disproven by decades of scientific research.<\/p>\n

In a Sunday interview with CNN\u2019s Dana Bash, Cassidy admitted that this version ofthe website is not, in fact, a \u201cgood faith\u201d attempt to stop spreading vaccine misinformation. But he added that parents probably don\u2019t look at that CDC webpage anyway:\u201cI\u2019ve never met a parent who wasn\u2019t a pediatrician who\u2019s gone into the website to look for information about vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response, Bash noted that the CDC sets public health policy, which makes it likely parents do seek guidance from the agency.<\/p>

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Cassidy responded that he is continuing to discuss the CDC\u2019s stance on vaccines with the health department, and that they have made additionalconcessions,but did not disclose what those were.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cassidy\u2019s pivot on Schwartz echoes his actions last year, when he cast the\u00a0deciding vote in favor of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s nomination for health secretary. Cassidy had initially withheld support for RFK given the Trump ally\u2019s statements that vaccines are unsafe. But Cassidy changed his mindafter receiving assurances from Kennedy that he would work within existing vaccine approval and safety systems and would collaborate with Cassidy\u2014promises that implied Kennedy would not undermine vaccine access.<\/p>\n

Since then, Kennedy has done the opposite, turning fringe conspiracy theories about vaccine safety into health policy\u2014including cutting nearly $500 million in research funding for mRNA vaccines, the vaccine technology used in many COVID vaccines.<\/p>\n

Cassidy directed the Senate health committee to delay a vote on Thursday on whether to advance Schwartz\u2019s nomination following Republican attendance issues. They are expected to vote next week.<\/p>

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