RFK Jr. on defense at center of CDC storm

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Trump today will host two dozen high-profile tech and business leaders for the first event in the newly renovated White House Rose Garden.
67% : Trump, who was hospitalized with COVID-19 in October 2020, said two months later that the speedy development of coronavirus vaccines was a major achievement.
65% : Israel's expanding military operation in Gaza has killed at least 287 people in the three days since a group of world-leading genocide scholars declared Israel is committing genocide in the besieged enclave.
60% : He replaced them with his own choices, some of whom are known anti-vaccine activists.
56% : " Only five presidents, including President Trump, have ever received congressional subpoenas.
56% : " During the meeting, Trump announced he will speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today, a White House official confirmed.
56% : This is the moment we find out if Trump is for real, by Oren Cass, columnist, The New York Times.
55% : " Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and formerly a cardiovascular surgeon before shifting to television and politics, told Fox News he supports the Sunshine State's plans to lift all vaccine mandates.
49% : In today's newsletter: ▪ RFK Jr. set for grilling on Capitol Hill ▪ Tech CEOs head to White House ▪ Epstein victims push for disclosures ▪ Trump to speak with Zelensky Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will face tough questions today from senators who worry his management of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as a vaccine skeptic has spawned national confusion and raised the stakes for public health.
43% : Trump is asking the Supreme Court to rescue his tariffs after an appeals court struck down the bulk of the levies last week.
41% : Trump pledged to stand with Warsaw "all the way" during a meeting with Poland's conservative nationalist president, Karol Nawrocki, at the White House.
37% : FEDERAL DEPLOYMENT: Trump declared he will send the National Guard into Chicago, setting himself up for a bigger legal challenge and riskier political move compared with his crackdown in Washington, D.C. Trump doesn't have Home Rule authority in states like he does D.C., and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) has warned the president against deploying the National Guard.
34% : ▪ The Hill: Trump on Wednesday floated the idea of a federal deployment into New Orleans to quickly eradicate crime there.
34% : "I'm having a conversation with him very shortly and I'll know pretty much what we're going to be doing," Trump said Wednesday. Trump won't be the only world leader speaking with Zelensky:
29% : President Trump, who frequently praises the secretary and the administration's "Make America Healthy Again" agenda, shows no signs of reining in his iconoclastic Cabinet pick.
27% : " ▪ The Hill: Schools prepare for the worst as RFK Jr. reshapes the vaccine landscape.
21% : The power struggle also comes with political risks for Pritzker and other Democrats in how they handle Trump after the D.C. federal crime crackdown gave the president something to tout.
16% : " Shortly after the press conference ended, Trump referred to the push for the Epstein files to be released as a "Democrat hoax.

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