Trump’s former surgeon general urges president to fire RFK Jr

<p>Jerome Adams cites vaccine policy and chaos at CDC and joins other officials in saying Kennedy is risking US health</p><p>The surgeon general from the first <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Trump administration</a> on Saturday said that the US president should “absolutely” fire health secretary <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/robert-f-kennedy-jr">Robert F Kennedy Jr</a> over his “dangerous” <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/11/rfk-jr-trump-vaccine-research-avian-flu">policies on vaccines</a> and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).</p><p>Jerome Adams, who has become a pointed critic of the controversial public health decisions being swiftly rolled out in the second Trump administration, made his most fierce attack yet on what has been unfolding.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/jerome-adams-trump-surgeon-blasts-rfk-jr">Continue reading...</a>