February 15, 2026

HHS Watch

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will celebrate one year of the Make America Healthy Again movement in a speech on Monday.

The event, hosted by The Heritage Foundation and MAHA Action, “will highlight key actions taken during his first year, reflect on lessons learned in rebuilding public trust, and look ahead to remaining priorities.”

Kennedy and Heritage President Kevin Roberts will have a conversation followed by a “panel of leaders engaged in restoring American wellness across policy, legal action, and coalition building.”

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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces the new USDA dietary guidelines. Anna Moneymaker/Getty

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

The Trump administration’s new dietary guidelines urging Americans to eat far more meat and dairy products will, if followed, come at a major cost to the planet via huge swathes of habitat razed for farmland and millions of tons of extra planet-heating emissions.

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As you may remember, during Barack Obama’s presidency, school lunches got a truly awful overhaul.

In the name of making kids “healthier,” whole milk was banned from school cafeterias nationwide. Schools had to serve kids either low-fat or non-fat milk.

Today, President Trump put an end to that nonsense.

From the Oval Office, he signed a law restoring whole milk back to school lunches.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has unveiled the department’s update to the previous food pyramid. The pyramid is replaced with a 10-page guide. The Secretary said of the guide, “The new guidelines recognize that whole, nutrient-dense food is the most effective path to better health and lower health care cost.”

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President Donald Trump’s administration has released a new set of federal dietary guidelines that will influence meals served to millions of Americans across government programs, schools, and federal institutions.

The new guidelines were revealed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and are designed to align with the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda.

The 10-page guidance document emphasizes protein, dairy, “healthy fats,” fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, with Kennedy and Rollins describing the approach as a return to whole, nutrient-dense food.

“The new guidelines recognize that whole, nutrient-dense food is the most effective path to better health and lower health care costs,” Kennedy said at a press conference in Washington.

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Eating real food is not quite that simple, and might even constitute “bowing to Big Meat,” depending on who you ask.

After Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his department dropped the new federal dietary guidelines — which have been historically referred to as the food pyramid — the recommendation of eating “real food,” including red meat and full-fat dairy, was seen as an attack by many in the dietary sphere.

‘Beef is responsible for 20 times more greenhouse gas emissions per gram of protein than beans.’

The new guidelines emphasized protein (from meat and vegetables), dairy, fruit, and some grains as part of a healthy diet. While some cleverly accused HHS of copying a popular “South Park” scene where scientists simply “flip the pyramid” to solve America’s health crisis, others decided to criticize the guidelines for promoting animal meat intake.

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Representative Haley Stevens (D-MI) has filed articles of impeachment against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., saying that he “has turned his back on science” and failed to protect the American people.

Stevens, who is currently running for Senate in Michigan, had threatened to file articles of impeachment back in September after claiming that his actions and public comments had endangered public health, raised healthcare costs and cut medical research programs.

In a statement posted on social media, Stevens said: “Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.”

Stevens, who calls herself  “a very serious lawmaker,” told NBC News, “But I’m not going to sit quietly by while people’s health and safety and lives are on the line.”

On Steve Bannon’s War Rom show, James Lyons-Weiler, a health activist who runs the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge, claimed “I think that we’re going to probably see some prosecutions on the basis of defrauding the federal government. If I’m funded by the federal government to do science, to do research, and I falsify the data, I can be fined personally, and I can be banned from doing research for 10 years…

…Ed Martin. He was at the Association of Physicians and Surgeons meeting last month. I was there Yes. And he made an announcement that Mr. Kennedy, Secretary Kennedy, gave him a list of 28 studies with the journals and layperson’s summaries that actually they were wrongfully retracted and that those journals have been put on notice by the attorney general’s office. And I was asked by Secretary Kennedy to put that list together for him.”

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Steve Bannon interviews James Lyons-Weiler on The War Room.

On Wednesday morning James Lyons-Weiler joined Steve Bannon on The War Room to discuss the “weaponization of science” and its destructive effects on the American people.

James Lyons-Weiler is an American scientist and activist who operates the non-profit organization Institute for Pure and Applied Knoledge. Lyons-Weiler holds a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology.

from www.thegatewaypundit.com

PepsiCo Releases MAHA Doritos and Cheetos

PepsiCo has announced the launching of major brands getting a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) makeover. Among the first brands to get the makeover include Dorits and Cheetos.

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PepsiCo has just launched a new push to transform some of its major snack brands to bring them into line with the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) agenda.

The company announced that several brands, including Doritos and Cheetos, will undergo significant ingredient changes.

The change is part of a nationwide effort to eliminate artificial colors and flavors from processed foods.

The move aligns with the MAHA initiative spearheaded by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., The Gateway Pundit reported.

The Trump administration aims to phase out petroleum-based dyes from the U.S. food supply by the end of next year.

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A Washington Post/KFF poll showed a super-majority of American parents support the Make America Healthy Again Agenda (MAHA). For instance, 8 in 10 parents support an increase in government regulations on dyes and chemicals additives in foods. 62% of Republicans support MAHA compared to just 34% of Independents and 17% of Democrats.

So far, there seems to be a disconnect between MAHA’s ACTUAL agenda, which the public largely supports, and MAHA’s DNC-media manipulated public perception.

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The vast majority of parents support a key Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) effort, according to a Washington Post/KFF poll released Wednesday.

At least 8 in 10 parents said they are supportive of increasing government regulations on dyes and chemical additives in food, highly-processed food and added sugars — a central element of  Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s MAHA agenda — according to the poll. 

However, when explicitly asked if they supported the MAHA movement, only roughly 4 in 10 parents said they were in favor of it, the poll found. The survey also found that 62% of Republicans responded that they consider themselves to be supporters of the MAHA agenda, compared to 34% of independents and just 17% of Democrats.

“That suggests to me that for the average parent, MAHA is more of a political identity than one that’s really deeply rooted in the goals of the movement,” Liz Hamel, vice president and director of public opinion and survey research at KFF, told the Washington Post.

RFK, Jr.: “We Are Going To Stop The Crime of Chemtrails!”– wltreport.com
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THIS IS A RE-RELEASE OF A VERY IMPORTANT ARTICLE WE DID ON CHEMTRAILS RECENTLY.  PLEASE ENJOY AND SHARE.

Sometimes it just feels like EVERYTHING is coming together….

President Trump’s team is surging….

RFK has endorsed and joined…

We’re going after vaccines and autism….

Election integrity issues being addressed in several swing states….

Illegal voters being purged from the voting rolls….

And now the latest — we’re even tackling chemtrails!

Until just a few years ago, most believed chemtrails were not even real.

But we’ve been shouting about them from the rooftops and it looks like our hard work is finally paying off!

Perhaps RFK, Jr. is a WLTReport reader?

CDC committee votes to change measles vaccine guidance for young children– www.livescience.com
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An influential Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) committee has announced new recommendations for the combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (MMRV) vaccine.

The members of the committee, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), was recently changed under the leadership of Department of Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. All 17 previous members were removed and then replaced with a new group, which includes several prominent anti-vaccine advocates.

RFK Jr’s vaccine committee changed its MMRV recommendations– www.latimes.com
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A key committee of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday to alter its recommendation on an early childhood vaccine, after a discussion that at times pitted vaccine skeptics against the CDC’s own data.

After an 8 to 3 vote with one abstention, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will no longer recommend that children under the age of 4 receive a single-shot vaccine for mumps, measles, rubella and varicella (better known as chicken pox).

Instead, the CDC will recommend that children between the ages of 12 to 15 months receive two separate shots at the same time: one for mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) and one for varicella.

The first vote of the committee’s two-day meeting represents a relatively small change to current immunization practices. The committee will vote Friday on proposed changes to childhood Hepatitis B and COVID vaccines.

But doctors said the lack of expertise and vaccine skepticism on display during much of the discussion would only further dilute public trust in science and public health guidance.

“I think the primary goal of this meeting has already happened, and that was to sow distrust and instill fear among parents and families,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary, chair of American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Infectious Diseases, during a Zoom press conference Thursday.

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RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel Expected To Recommend Delaying Hepatitis B Shot for Children – KFF Health News
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A key federal vaccine advisory panel whose members were recently replaced by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to vote to recommend delaying until age 4 the hepatitis B vaccine that’s currently given to newborns, according to two former senior Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials.

“There is going to likely be a discussion about hepatitis B vaccine, very specifically trying to dislodge the birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine and to push it later in life,” said Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. “Apparently this is a priority of the secretary’s.”t meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, scheduled for Sept. 18-19.

For more than 30 years, the first of three shots of hepatitis B vaccine has been recommended for infants shortly after birth. In that time, the potentially fatal disease has been virtually eradicated among American children. Pediatricians warn that waiting four years for the vaccine opens the door to more children contracting the virus.

“Age 4 makes zero sense,” pediatrician Eric Ball said. “We recommend a universal approach to prevent those cases where a test might be incorrect or a mother might have unknowingly contracted hepatitis. It’s really the best way to keep our entire population healthy.”

Trump thinks RFK Jr is the key to win the midterms – all by getting MAHA moms on their side– www.independent.co.uk
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MAHA takes on Big Pharma to restore trust in American health– www.theblaze.com
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… Now, a growing number of Americans are speaking out decisively against the quartet of Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Food, and Big Health. This coalition of “Make America Healthy Again” voters is targeting a crisis of institutional credibility and a growing unease with an industry that is no longer trusted and seems more focused on profits than on people’s health.

As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, I see these problems firsthand. With the MAHA coalition powering Republican victories up and down the ballot, we as Republicans have a generational opportunity to take back our health system. We can make changes and save American lives, but we need to agree on the problems to start.

More than two-thirds of all Missouri adults are overweight. Synthetic opioid overdoses claimed nearly 850 lives last year, with local St. Louis and St. Charles Counties ranking at or near the worst in the state. And should we forget the COVID mandates that caused overdoses to spike, caused childhood anxiety and depression to rise, and kept healthy toddlers in masks? Such measures stunted their development for years, as dissenting scientists and members of the public were told to “trust the experts” and shut up.

Dismissing people is the quickest way to continue to diminish what little trust remains. In my practice, I encounter this lack of trust in our medical establishment every day with my patients. After years of being told to trust “the science” — meaning “don’t question us” — many people no longer trust anything the medical establishment has to say.

RFK Jr. wants to overhaul the country’s ‘vaccine court.’ Here’s what stands in his way.– www.livescience.com
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For almost 40 years, people who suspect they’ve been harmed by a vaccine have been able to turn to a little-known system called the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program — often simply called the vaccine court.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long been a critic of the vaccine court, calling it “biased” against compensating people, slow and unfair. He has said that he wants to “revolutionize” or “fix” this system.

 

Senate Hearing Turns Into Proxy War › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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The issue is never the issue.

The appearance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, before the Pfizer Tribunal at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Thursday reminded me of the truth of that famous saying of Saul Alinsky.

The issue is never the issue. What is always the issue, according to that community organizer nonpareil, is power.

Ostensibly, Secretary Kennedy came to answer questions about COVID (remember that scam?) and the performance of people at—or, rather, recently at—the Centers for Disease Control. He recently fired the new, freshly confirmed director, Susan Monarez, for being “untrustworthy,” and some 1000 staffers walked out in solidarity or—what’s that other word beginning with an “s”?—Oh, right: in a snit.

One by one, the senators, mostly Democrats but also a few Republicans, screamed and gesticulated at Kennedy, accused him of being a “charlatan” and worse, and demanded that he resign or be fired.

 

Republicans who confirmed RFK Jr. now worried he might be a nut job– www.dailykos.com
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GOP Senators are now seeing what anyone with half a brain has known for months: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a dangerous quack who puts Americans’ health at risk.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Multiple Republican lawmakers dressed Kennedy down on Thursday during a Senate Finance Committee hearing, expressing concerns with his anti-vaccine policies and his personnel decisions.

Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, an orthopedic surgeon by trade who cast the deciding vote to confirm Kennedy, took a page out of the playbook of Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, saying that he was “concerned” about Kennedy’s stance on vaccines.

“Secretary Kennedy, in your confirmation hearings, you promised to uphold the highest standards for vaccines,” Barrasso said. “Since then, I’ve grown deeply concerned. The public has seen measles outbreaks, leadership in the National Institutes of Health questioning the use of mRNA vaccines, the recently confirmed director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fired. Americans don’t know who to rely on.”

RFK Jr. EXPOSES Former CDC Vaccine Chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis — BLOCKED Him for 7 MONTHS from Accessing Vaccine Safety Data and Withheld Funds from Texas Measles Response | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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The corruption at the CDC just got blown wide open.

During a bombshell appearance on Fox & Friends Sunday, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed that former CDC vaccine chief Demetre Daskalakis actively stonewalled life-saving funds meant for Texas during a dangerous measles outbreak, and then blocked RFK Jr. himself from accessing critical vaccine safety data for seven straight months.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Daskalakis bolted from his role as Director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases just hours after CDC Director Susan Monarez was unceremoniously ousted.

His exit came the very same day RFK Jr. announced sweeping reforms to dismantle the failed vaccine mandates that crushed our economy and stripped away Americans’ freedoms.

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US health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr (Image credits: AP)

US health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has dismissed two top aides of the department, marking a sudden leadership shift just months into his tenure.Chief of staff Heather Flick Melanson and deputy chief of staff for Policy Hannah Anderson were removed from their roles this week, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The possible reason behind the move remains unclear. An HHS spokesperson confirmed the changes and announced that Matt Buckham, the department’s White House liaison, will take over as acting chief of staff.“He brings valuable experience in personnel strategy and organizational management to this new role,” the spokesperson said as quoted by CNN. “Secretary Kennedy thanks the outgoing leadership for their service and looks forward to working closely with Mr. Buckham as the Department continues advancing its mission to Make America Healthy Again,” he added.Kennedy has not yet chosen permanent replacements.The leadership overhaul comes as HHS faces mounting scrutiny over its efforts to revise vaccine policies and push forward key health and food initiatives.Flick was one of Kennedy’s most seasoned Washington insiders, having held multiple senior roles at HHS during the Trump administration, including acting general counsel, acting secretary for administration, and senior adviser to then-Secretary Alex Azar.Anderson came to HHS with a background as a Republican staffer on Capitol Hill, where she served as a health policy adviser on the Senate’s primary health committee. Most recently, she led health care policy at the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute.