U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Washington, DC, on Sept. 4, 2025. —Alex Wroblewski—AFP via Getty Images Democrats and Republicans in the new Congress will disagree about plenty in health policy. However, they should agree that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) should be a scientific agency whose judgments hold steady no matter who occupies the White House. In January, Congress will have the chance to write that principle into law.
For decades, the scientific independence of America’s public health agencies rested on a bipartisan understanding. Presidential administrations disagreed about…
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