Washington, D.C. — Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after an international body concluded that the measles could no longer be considered eliminated in the United States.
“This humiliating determination is the tragic yet predictable result of an ongoing campaign by grifters, quacks and charlatans to put their own greed and self-worth ahead of the health and safety of children,” Wyden said. “Trump, Vance and Republicans empowered Robert Kennedy and his deputies to run America’s public health into the ground, and they have blood on their hands. Democrats in Congress are going to use our new majorities to expose how this administration lied and pillaged its way to this moment, where the clock has turned backwards and horrible diseases defeated by science and innovation have been resurrected to sicken and kill innocent children.”