Washington, Oregon and California governors form alliance in rebuke of Trump administration
September 3, 2025
The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California have created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putting Americans’ health and safety at risk by politicizing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The move announced Wednesday comes with COVID-19 cases rising in the U.S. and as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. restructures and downsizes the CDC and attempts to advance anti-vaccine policies that are contradicted by decades of scientific research. Concerns about staffing and budget cuts were heightened after the White House sought to oust the agency’s director and some top CDC leaders resigned in protest.