WASHINGTON — White House officials are steering the Trump administration away from vaccine reform, fearing the political fallout of emphasizing a relatively unpopular issue during a critical election year.
But the “Make America Healthy” movement, led by Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has a history of anti-vaccination activism, is not going without a fight.
The change in government began late last year, especially as the midterm elections approached, when Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio released a memo saying that “vaccine skepticism is bad politics.”
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