Every American wants to be safer and healthier. The administration's assault on public health makes us less so. When the next crisis comes, we will have lost precious time, talent, and capacity to respond.

This comes after previous cuts to lifesaving environmental health, chronic disease, and tobacco programs, which address the leading causes of death in the U.S.

—Office of Science – approves outbreak reports and scientific publications, including the essential Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).

—National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey – coordinates complex fieldwork, laboratory testing, and data integration, and helped identify Americans’ dangerous overconsumption of ultra-processed foods, an issue Secretary Kennedy has repeatedly cited as a major health threat.

The staff reductions announced last weekend hit critical infrastructure, including:

—National Center for Health Statistics – how we track births, deaths, chronic disease, and emerging threats

The administration talks about making America healthier, about transparency and quality science. But the plain truth is they’re doing the opposite, systematically destroying the systems that keep us safe from health threats, making life-and-death decisions with no discussion & undermining science.

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