Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is President Donald Trump's lead man at Health and Human Services (HHS), is keeping big promises, and that was evidenced in a major way this week alone.
According to Breitbart, RFK announced this week that after a two-decade-long battle, mercury in vaccines has been fully banned. He blasted federal agencies for allowing "a known neurotoxin to be injected into pregnant women and children for decades."
Kennedy, in a detailed video statement explaining the move, announced the successful ban of thimerosal, a preservative containing mercury that's still found in common vaccines and is not safe for pregnant women and children.
Despite overwhelming evidence of the dangers of the mercury-based preservative, the CDC allowed it to be used in multi-dose vaccines, often administered to pregnant women and children.
Rightfully so, Kennedy took a victory lap in his X post announcing the banning of the preservative.
After more than 20 years of delay, I’m proud to finally deliver on a long-overdue promise: protecting our most vulnerable from unnecessary mercury exposure. pic.twitter.com/rYF5BN8JYj
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) August 2, 2025
"After more than 20 years of delay, I’m proud to finally deliver on a long-overdue promise: protecting our most vulnerable from unnecessary mercury exposure," he wrote.
Breitbart noted:
Thimerosal, a compound whose main ingredient is ethylmercury, had been used for decades as a preservative in multi-dose vaccine vials. According to Kennedy, the CDC shockingly continued to permit its use in flu shots given to pregnant women and children, despite overwhelming evidence of its neurotoxicity.
"The amount of ethylmercury in the flu shot that CDC just banned under my order is 25,000 times the EPA’s safety level for drinking water," he said in the video.
He cited a number of peer-reviewed studies and presented compelling evidence of the dangers of the preservative.
Kennedy held nothing back in his criticism of federal agencies allowing it to be used in vaccines -- especially for those most vulnerable to disastrous side effects.
"Why were we injecting this toxin into babies and pregnant women?" Kennedy asked. "Federal and state laws classify expired thimerosal vaccines as hazardous waste. Yet they were good enough to put into your bloodstream?"
"I’ve spent 20 years trying to get mercury out of vaccines," Kennedy said. "I spent four years trying to get mercury out of fish, and nobody called me anti-fish."
It'll be fascinating and refreshing to see what else Sec. Kennedy and the Trump administration do for America on the health front.
