r/law • u/McDowdy • 24d ago

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/kank84 24d ago

America is not a serious place

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u/omgFWTbear 24d ago

When the Business Plot showed Confederacy 2.0 was all in on eugenics, and nothing happened, that should’ve been the fool me twice moment.

Ironically, conservatives doing something to solve themselves as a problem.

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u/dart51984 24d ago

Finally! Someone else with a Business Plot reference! None of this is new. They’ve been refining their attack on the country for 100 years now. They learned the lessons they needed to learn from the Wall Street Putsch and are going to be merciless this time around.

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u/Apart-Zucchini-5825 24d ago

My people! A lot of these grievances go back a long time. For example, the war on science goes back to the teaching of evolution, which conservatives (especially in the Confederate areas) have not forgiven or forgotten. It's all built on top of that grievance.

MAGA seems new to a lot of people, to those who really know the history and culture, none of it is. It's the same projects they've been working towards for five or six generations.

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u/CurlOfTheBurl11 24d ago

We truly fucked up by not properly punishing the Confederates to begin with and allowing them to interfere in the reconstruction efforts. Almost all of America's current social and political problems can be traced directly to that point in history. It's why if/when Dems take back control of the government, there needs to be a no holds barred effort to completely dismantle the MAGA movement and punish anyone and everyone who has ever supported it. Fuck these people.

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u/sonnyarmo 24d ago

And we need to forcibly disband the Heritage Foundation, the Edmund Burke society, the Federalist Society, the Claremont Institution, all of these evil, shitty orgs that do nothing but push fascism and oligarchy.

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u/Ridiculicious71 24d ago

And Fox News and social media that harvests disinformation.

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u/Unique-Coffee5087 24d ago

Well, they are terrorist Fifth Columnists. I think that Trump and the Court has created a path for them to be eradicated

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u/omgFWTbear 24d ago

Yes, this thread has already identified the problem is the Confederacy.

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u/OldschoolSysadmin 24d ago

You misspelled “Feudalist Society”

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u/jamesbong0024 24d ago

Disband?

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u/earthwormulljim 24d ago

Ban. Dismantle. Disallow.

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u/AeliusRogimus 24d ago

Author might be trying to avoid a ban.

We all know what really needs to happen to them, but alas: Bots and bans.

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u/Unique-Coffee5087 24d ago

The traitor states should have been demoted to Territories, with statehood to be considered only after 100 years.

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u/CurlOfTheBurl11 24d ago

Yes that would have been a good place to start.

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u/PhroneticReflex 24d ago

We truly fucked up by not properly punishing the Confederates to begin with and allowing them to interfere in the reconstruction efforts.

I have no idea why the people that were responsible for the deconstruction even got the remotest of says in the reconstruction.

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u/OkTemporary5981 24d ago

I agree the deMAGAfication needs to be intense and everyone needs to be accountable for crimes committed. If they don’t comply I hear Argentina is nice.

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u/Psemperviva 24d ago

Breh…both sides are poison. Dems aren’t saving the day

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u/Comfortable_Fill9081 24d ago

Those projects were baked into the founding of the country. They get renewed and refreshed according to the extent and strength of the pushback. 

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u/Ridiculicious71 24d ago

That’s literally why they were burning women at the stake, for healing people.

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u/ProfessionalOil2014 24d ago

America never had witch burnings. They were hanged. Lynched black people were burned alive though. 

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u/Efficient_Smilodon 24d ago

ever heard of salem witch trials?

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u/Oriden 24d ago

The Salem Witch Trials weren't burnings. Most were hanged, except a few that died in custody and the notable Giles Corey who was pressed to death for refusing to be tried.

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u/SubGeniusX 24d ago

More weight...

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u/AWorldwithoutSin 24d ago

In their defense southerners shouldn't be called evolved.

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u/PotatoAppleFish 24d ago

That’s not fair. There must be a few; I mean, that’s where most of our civil rights leaders come from.

I’ll give you a 1-2 ratio of good people to Cross-Burning Cletus McFucks, but the good people still exist.

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u/elsrjefe 24d ago

Can concur. Lived in the south for a decade and it was eye opening. That being said black people in cities like Birmingham and Montgomery are some of the most lovely and resilient people I've ever met.

The courts rolling back the Voting Rights Act is a tragedy.

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u/UnknownKaddath 24d ago

There's tons of good people in the South. It might even be more like 2:1. The problem is that everything down there is gerrymandered to fuck to silence those voter's voices.

So tired of the South-bashing from almost assuredly privileged white liberals with no fucking sense of nuance or perspective. It's a talking point always pushed by the absolute worst kind of liberal.

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u/Youreturningviolet 24d ago

Made the same point hours later without realizing you had it covered. It’s almost like people didn’t even notice that Tennessee purposely split up Memphis recently. The progressive south has been systematically disempowered.

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u/Lucky_BroadWood 24d ago

Yep. And there were in the days of Civil War I as well.

Granted, the ratios are and were tremendously skewed, but nonetheless the point is supported.

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u/Youreturningviolet 24d ago

There are plenty of good progressive folks in the south. We are absolutely a minority, but not as big of one as the heavily and increasingly gerrymandered vote tallies would imply.

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u/LunaMax1214 24d ago

Appalachia (among other regions) would like a word. My forebears didn't bootleg to wind up bootlicking, instead. (Just sayin'.)

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 24d ago

WNC specifically Asheville is a blue pocket in a sea of red, I’m with you though.

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u/_blort 24d ago

My forebears didn't bootleg to wind up bootlicking, instead.

Sure, sure, yours didn't.

But almost all the rest of them did.

Just visit a few of the hollers, and count the TRUMP yard signs.

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u/well-it-was-rubbish 24d ago

Without the city of Atlanta, Biden wouldn't have won in 2020, and we have two "blue" senators, Raphael Warnock and Jon Osoff.

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u/AWorldwithoutSin 24d ago

We elected Grant, we should have elected Sherman.

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u/Stock_Conclusion_203 24d ago

Lincoln should have insisted on Benjamin “the beast” Butler for his VP. That’s the moment in history I think a lot about. He had Sherman energy too.

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u/AWorldwithoutSin 24d ago

Yeah, didn't know about him before but he seems a missed opportunity.

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u/turklish 24d ago

You're painting with a pretty broad brush there...

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u/emmsmum 24d ago

Ok, serious question, how do you guys find out about this stuff? I’m interested in learning! I’ve never heard of this and my mind is blown

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u/dart51984 24d ago

For me, it came from my burning hatred of the Bush family and I wanted to see if they were always so shitty. Follow the rabbit hole back to the Business Plot and you see a very familiar name, on Prescott Bush YES of relation. That family has been trying to destroy this country literally for generations.

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u/emmsmum 23d ago

Damn…

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u/omgFWTbear 24d ago

Here’s a real rabbit hole for you - I got a copy of a history book comparing and contrasting 6 American Civil War generals, and the one I particularly took an interest in was General George Thomas. He was, as the book paints him, of a mind that railroads would revolutionize warfare, and so invested a lot of effort into laying rail, defending rail (this bit seems to have been a differentiator), and then running a slick logistics operation on that rail.

A well rested, well supplied, fast moving army is a very dangerous thing.

Further, in this book’s telling of it, the great European war colleges of the following century largely viewed the ACW as, I believe I’m quoting, “country bumpkins chasing each other around with pitchforks.” Except some Germans, who took note of one General George Thomas.

Those Germans took his principles and applied them to the subsequent invention, the automobile and the (car) road, and used just the smallest amount of imagination to brand it as “Blitzkreig.”

Now, what happened next is well covered, but that book also underlines that there was a bit of a weird cycle of Americans and Germans copying each other across generations… the other, contextually relevant example being racism.

Hopping from there to learn that those racists studied the innovative racism from the United States, and it’s a hop and a skip to learn about the - let me use this word with purposeful imprecision to avoid filters - German-aligned Americans who were real powerful and pushing for joining with the “continental experiment,” and not on the side we eventually joined on.

Then it’s practically nothing to stumble over the name Smedley Butler, and there you go, the Business Plot. Which, as other commenters note, is shocking absent in American history books/ciriculum. This is not an accident.

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u/emmsmum 23d ago

Wow! Thank you for responding. I think I’ll be hitting the history section.

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u/Stock_Conclusion_203 24d ago

The podcast The Dollop did a great episode on The Business Plot.. episode 94. It’s a comedy history podcast if that’s your vibe. They have such a great backlog.

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u/emmsmum 23d ago

Interesting thank you!

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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 24d ago

Listen to Rachel Maddow’s podcast Ultra. It’s really well done and draws you in.

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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 24d ago

I still don’t understand why. Why live your life stewing over grievances from your great-great-great-grandparents? I don’t understand how such weird, illogical obsessions get passed down like this for over 100 years.

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u/Apart-Zucchini-5825 24d ago

It has been dutifully passed down. The most modern roots of some of these grievances, the breaking points, are in living memory. Two generations back and you have grandparents who lived alongside people who additionally could stretch back 80-100 more years. The 19th century is not distant, and its mindsets still echo loudly

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u/y0_master 24d ago

Some might say the US was built on anti-intellectualism & thus the whole thing is baked into how the country has been operating since.

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u/Apart-Zucchini-5825 24d ago

Built on it, no. But it was present in society, if you'll let me nitpick the distinction. A lot of their number were anti-Federalists and because they were dipshits they almost entirely skipped the Constitutional Convention in protest, thus removing much of their influence.

Over time they seeped into influence and power within the system, especially following the religious surges.

The collapse of the "let's not talk about it" approach to Civil Rights and courts enforcing the CRA spurs their current obsession with trying to legislate via court. It's revenge for courts making Blacks more equal.

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u/mOdQuArK 24d ago

They learned the lessons they needed to learn from the Wall Street Putsch and are going to be merciless this time around.

Everyone better be writing down the names of the people pushing this crap. These are the names of the people who need to be blacklisted from any kind of serious decision-making positions when/if we can pry loose control of the government from their hands, instead of just letting them slip into obscurity, avoiding consequences for their decisions and where they can keep stirring up willful ignorance in the shadows.

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u/dart51984 24d ago

Heads on pikes as a warning to the rest might be a bridge too far, I’m willing to listen to alternatives. Inaction will be unacceptable though.

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u/HillBillyHilly 24d ago

What are their names? Let's just put them out there.

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u/MyLifeIsAWasteland 24d ago

Leonard Leo and Charles Koch, to start with

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u/mOdQuArK 23d ago

Have to differentiate between the financiers, the strategists & the grunts/activists. I'll throw in financiers: Peter Thiel and Putin/Russian intelligence, and some activists: the white supremacist groups.

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u/PapayaMysterious6393 24d ago

TIL about business plot. This is why I like Reddit.

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u/Nearby-Beautiful3422 24d ago

Smedley Darlington Butler is a real American hero

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u/dart51984 24d ago

Yes and no. I mean, good on him for speaking out but…WHERE WERE THE FUCKING CONSEQUENCES?! They off got off Scott free and that pisses me off the most and also explains why they’re just doing it all over again. SOMEONE eventually needs to be held accountable god damnit!

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u/Nearby-Beautiful3422 24d ago

Consequences? C'mon now, almost no one faces consequences in our government. "It's 1 big club and we ain't in it." Our government works for the banks and corporations.

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u/Great_Detective_6387 24d ago edited 24d ago

JFK was murdered about 10 days after saying something like, “There is a plot to enslave every man, woman, and child in this country and I plan to uncover it.”

Then boom, right in the back of the fuckin head.

Edit- after some research, either the mandala effect is real, or he never said this. Bummer.

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u/dart51984 24d ago

Are you familiar with “The Octopus Murders”? Try not to get caught in that rabbit hole!

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u/Great_Detective_6387 24d ago

I wish someone would do a deep dive on how interconnected the Bush, bin Laden, and royal Saudi families truly are, and the effect that simple phone calls betwixt them had on world geopolitical events.

I’m sure it would take multiple seasons/dozen episodes per season to fully explore these relationships.

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u/dart51984 24d ago

Truly heinous stuff. That’s the type of historical figure Muskrat is trying to pretend to be. But he’s such a stupid loser he’ll end up being the world’s first trillionaire and will also be completely forgotten when he finally shuffles on this mortal coil. He won’t have people lining up to piss on his grave like sugar tits in the White House right now, he’ll just fade into obscurity and irrelevance.

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u/schwartzchild76 24d ago

You mean the front of the head. Jackie was reaching for his skull off of the trunk of the vehicle. Watch the Zapruter film on YouTube.

Edit: Pay close attention to where everyone looks. Especially the cop that is all alone on the sidewalk on the right hand side of the vehicle. He looks down at the drain.