Kennedy-Trump Vaccine Rift Reveals Fragile Alliance on Science

A Bulwark analysis argues RFK Jr.’s public push against vaccines and science is entwined with his MAHA movement and his uneasy alliance with Trump; recent health-policy moves and personnel changes—such as the CDC leadership reshuffle and FDA commissioner Makary’s resignation—show the collaboration is friction-filled as both men share distrust of elites even as their policy goals diverge on vaccines and public health.