Republican senator who voted for RFK Jr balks at Louisiana anti-vaccine move

<p>Republican Bill Cassidy calls state surgeon general’s halt to promotion of mass vaccination a disservice to parents</p><p>Bill Cassidy, the Republican US senator, has said his home state of Louisiana’s recent decision to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/louisiana-vaccination">cancel the promotion of mass vaccination</a> against preventable diseases is a disservice to parents who want to keep their children healthy.</p><p>Nonetheless, before those remarks, the medical doctor-turned-politician who has clashed with Donald Trump joined 51 of his fellow Republicans in voting to confirm anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/13/rfk-health-secretary-confirmed">Robert F Kennedy Jr as secretary of the US’s health and human services department</a>. Cassidy had also previously voted to advance Trump’s nomination of Kennedy as national health secretary from the committee level to the full Senate.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/16/louisiana-vaccines-rfk-jr">Continue reading...</a>