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Trump order revises childhood vaccine recommendations
August 17, 2026
Trump orders changes to childhood vaccine recommendations, saying in the Oval Office on Monday that nothing bad can happen from what his administration is doing.
Trump's order changes the childhood vaccine recommendations, and CNN reports the defense he gave in the Oval Office on Monday. "Nothing bad can happen from what we are doing," Trump said. CBS News reports the same remark. The Washington Post reports the rollback of the recommendations and its bearing on individual schools.
The New York Times carries a fact check of the administration's claims about vaccines. The Hill reports Cassidy's prediction that the vaccine order drives insurance costs up. The accounts agree with one another on what Trump said and on what the order does.
CNN and CBS News also report the politics around Kennedy. Kennedy's allies joined Trump in openly backing a primary challenge to Cassidy, one that denied him renomination earlier this spring. What is settled is the order, Trump's defense of it on Monday, and Cassidy's loss of renomination. What the record does not settle is the detail of the revised recommendations or how insurers respond to them.
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The day's coverage does not lay out the text of the revised childhood vaccine recommendations, and it does not report how insurers have responded to Cassidy's cost prediction. Kennedy's search for causes of autism also sits unresolved in this record.