CNN’s Dana Bash Confronts Trump Education Chief Over RFK And Vaccines

CNN anchor Dana Bash confronted Trump Secretary of Education Linda McMahon over Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s stance on vaccines.

McMahon was a guest on Sunday morning’s edition of CNN’s State of the Union, during which Bash pressed her on a number of issues, including what, if any, involvement RFK would have in setting policy for vaccines at the local level:

DANA BASH: Can I just quickly ask you about RFK Junior? He is going to, if this were to happen, and if you were to work with Congress and move some of the portfolio over to HHS, he would have control over education portfolios, including 50 states mandate, the idea that 50 states mandate some vaccinations of school children against diseases like polio, diphtheria, and chickenpox. Would he be involved in vaccination of children at schools?

LINDA MCMAHON: That’s a little bit outside of looking at making sure that we have funding for children with disabilities, whatever is coming under the Department of HHS.

DANA BASH: So that’s a no?

LINDA MCMAHON: That’s not necessarily a no. I’m just saying that right now the Department of Education through the funding for children with disabilities is not controlling vaccinations and that sort of thing in states.

And so what I am saying that in terms of what I’m responsible for. And if that is moving over into HHS, I think that Secretary Kennedy, with whom I’ve had conversations about that, has an absolute passion about looking at students with handicaps and disabilities because he himself talks about how difficult it has been for him with the neurological aspect that he dealt with all through his life of trying to get over his own handicap with his voice, which is painful for him when he speaks. He understands for children who are having to deal. with that kind of a handicap and need help, I think that would be a passion of his own heart.

Watch above via CNN’s Inside Politics.