> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.fdaweb.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# FDA, CDC Staff Pen Open Letter to Remove RFK Jr.
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/fda-cdc-staff-pen-open-letter-to-remove-rfk-jr/
- Published: 2025-09-03T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T15:20:51.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: FDA Policy/General, #legacy-id-D5159806

Calls for HHS secretary **Robert F. Kennedy Jr.** to leave office are intensifying. Over a thousand current and former staff at FDA, CDC, and NIH have joined a new [open letter](https://www.savehhs.org/?ref=fdaweb.com) to Kennedy and Congress, calling for Kennedy to resign or be fired.

"We warn the President, Congress, and the public that secretary Kennedy’s actions are compromising the health of this nation, and we demand secretary Kennedy’s resignation," the letter said. “Should he decline to resign, we call upon the President and U.S. Congress to appoint a new secretary of Health and Human Services, one whose qualifications and experience ensure that health policy is informed by independent and unbiased peer-reviewed science.”

The letter follows increasing turmoil at the department and it cites recent examples, such as:

- Facilitating the firing of the Senate-confirmed CDC director, **Susan Monarez**.
- Appointing political ideologues who pose as scientific experts and manipulate data to fit predetermined conclusions.
- Refusing to be briefed by well-regarded CDC experts on vaccine-preventable diseases.
- Disregarding the President’s Executive Order, “Restoring Gold Standard Science in America”, which has called for transparent science.
- Rescinding FDA’s emergency use authorizations for Covid-19 vaccines without providing the data or methods used to reach such a decision.