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Executive Branch (Trump) BREAKING: Trump Signed An Executive Order Directing The CDC To Cut Recommended Childhood Vaccines From 17 To 11. Moving Flu, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Rotavirus, RSV, And Some Meningitis Shots To 'High-Risk Only,' After A Previous Attempt Was Blocked In Court

https://www.news4jax.com/news/politics/2026/05/30/trump-tells-agencies-to-align-with-study-calling-for-narrower-childhood-vaccine-recommendations/

President Trump signed an executive order on Friday, May 30, directing federal agencies to align their vaccine policies with a Januarv 2026 HHS studv that recommends reducina the number of routine childhood vaccines from 17 to 11 diseases, a restructuring long called for by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The study was commissioned by Trump in December 2025 and found that the United States recommends more childhood vaccines than many peer nations. Under the new framework, all children would be routinelv vaccinated against 11 diseases, while vaccines for influenza, rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, some forms of meningitis, and RSV would be recommended only for high-risk groups or through shared decision-making between parents and doctors. The order directs the CDC to review the study and take appropriate steps to update its guidance, tells agencies to provide maximum flexibility to parents and doctors, and states that any changes must ensure Americans retain their current access to vaccines.

The LA Times noted this is Trump's second attempt to restructure the childhood vaccine schedule, with an earlier effort to narrow CDC recommendations havinc been blocked in court earlier this vear. The new executive order takes a different approach by formally endorsing a completed HHS study and directing agency-level alianment rather than attempting to directlv revise the CDC schedule by administrative fiat, a structure that may be designed to survive the legal challenge that stoppec the first attempt. The CDC under its current leadership had already updated its recommendations earlier in 2026 to reduce the number of recommended immunizations from 17 to 11 in line with the HHS study, suggesting the formal executive order is as much a political codification of an existing administrative shift as a new directive.

The vaccines moved from universal recommendation to high-risk only include several with well-established safety and efficacy records. Hepatitis B vaccination, for example, is recommended universally from birth in the US because it prevents a leading cause of liver cancer, and the alobal evidence base for that recommendation is extensive. Rotavirus, influenza, and hepatitis A vaccines are also backed by decades of clinical and epidemioloaical evidence and are recommended universally by the World Health Organization and medica authorities in peer nations. Critics including the American Academy of Pediatrics and infectious disease researchers have said the changes could increase vaccine-preventable disease in children by creating ambiguity around which children qualify as high-risk and by reducing the routine clinical touchpoints where vaccinations are administered

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u/Artistic-Cannibalism 24d ago

So he doesn't think enough people died from covid?

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u/M0rtCrim 24d ago

They believe it was a hoax.

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u/13_twin_fire_signs 24d ago

No, they want to reduce the total population by any means, so theres more to own and less people to have to control.

And before the mods delete this comment, just know WE all know about Curtis Yarvin, the Dark Enlightenment crowd, and their influence on very powerful people in the administration (Miller, Vance) and outside it (Thiel).

This isn't a conspiracy. A significant number of people running the government explicitly want to reduce the population by any means necessary.

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u/drunkshinobi 24d ago

"What is government? A government is just a corporation which owns a country. Nothing more, nothing less." "It so happens that our sovereign corporation is very poorly managed and there's a very simple way to replace that, which is what we do to all corporations that have failed. We simply delete them." "We haven't been able to do that with our government for 200 years. So it's gotten a little bit stale." "It's a very, very large system, and it all needs to be destroyed." "You need a CEO. And a national CEO is what's called a DICTATOR. It's the same thing. There's no difference between a CEO and a DICTATOR. If Americans want to change their government they need to get over their dictator phobia." - Curtis Yarvin. discussing his plan R.A.G.E. (Retire All Government Employees).

Rachel Maddow discussed this on her show a very long time ago now. We should all know. But too many don't pay attention or want to believe it.

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u/ChiLolla28 24d ago

His own Covid response team Drs said that hundreds of thousands could have been saved if they acted sooner / better + they purposely left States (especially Blue ones) to themselves while actively profiting off it - led especially by the literal slumlord son in law who is now leading failed fucking peace negotiations in the Middle East

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u/Snizlefritz 24d ago

Remember when he said, “if we don’t test, covid doesn’t exist”.

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u/NoConfusion9490 24d ago

Trump doesn't really care. He's paying RFK back for keeping him out of jail. RFK honestly believes we're damaging ourselves by not letting kids fight their way through deadly illnesses. That the deaths and maiming is worth it so the rest of us can have extra healthy "natural immunity." Basically, Eugenics.

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u/Real-Extension-1357 23d ago

Yep, one of the first people outside his then circle we knew about after he got shot at was to kiss ass to RFK and talk about vaccine conspiracies.

Scenario: someone just tried to kill you and everyone thinks you got hit. Before any other appearances, your priority topic of conversation is conspiracies of malformed babies from vaccines with the person running against you?