***MEDIA ADVISORY FOR WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 4 at 11:15 AM ET***
Congressman Don Beyer (VA-08) will join advocates and Protect Our Care Virginia to sound the alarm on Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary. If RFK Jr. is confirmed, it will put Virginians’ lives at risk and jeopardize critical programs like the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, and Medicaid. RFK Jr. is deeply unqualified to serve in this position as he has no leadership qualifications in any role in public health or a government agency. Additionally, his fringe views on vaccines and his disregard of science and public health makes him a danger to the American people.
As HHS Secretary, RFK Jr. will push radical policies that will undermine decades of progress to lower health care costs, conduct research on life-saving cures for diseases, and keep Virginians healthy. Virginians deserve a leader at HHS who believes in science, the efficacy of vaccines, and who is committed to strengthening and expanding health care policies enacted since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Speakers will discuss how RFK Jr.’s leadership will affect nearly every Virginian, as he will prioritize his own interests and bolster MAGA efforts to increase health care costs by slashing Medicaid, repealing the Affordable Care Act, and banning Medicare from negotiating lower drug prices.
PRESS CALL
WHO:
U.S. Representative Don Beyer (VA-08)
Mary Wright Baylor, Nurse Educator and Medical Reserve Corps Vaccinator
Pablo Moulden, Community Health Specialist
Laura Packard, Cancer Survivor
Katie Baker, State Director of Protect Our Care Virginia
WHAT: Virtual Press Conference
WHEN: Wed. Dec. 4 at 11:15 AM ET
WHERE: Register for the virtual event here (Registration is required).
BACKGROUND
Washington Post: 10 RFK Jr. conspiracy theories and false claims, in his own words