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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appears before the Senate Finance Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Operation Warp Speed was one of Trump’s biggest achievements. Then came RFK Jr. and vaccine skeptics

September 4, 2025

President Donald Trump launched Operation Warp Speed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and, as recently as last week, praised it as a major achievement. However, Trump’s handpicked health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and a growing cadre of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” supporters are distrustful of the very mRNA vaccine technology that the president has championed. At a congressional hearing Thursday, Kennedy came under fire for his work to restrict access to vaccines, including the COVID-19 shots touted by his boss. Highlighting the divide was that much of the praise of Trump’s efforts to find a vaccine for COVID-19 came Thursday from Democrats.

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President Donald Trump holds a full set of medals from the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, during an event regarding the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games, in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump creates task force to prepare for 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles

August 5, 2025

President Donald Trump on Tuesday established a task force on the 2028 Olympic Games being held in Los Angeles that he said would ensure the event is “safe, seamless and historically successful.” This will be the first Olympics hosted by the U.S. since the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Trump signed an executive order at the White House establishing the task force and said “The L.A. Olympics is shaping up to be a wonderful moment for America.”

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