Top HHS Spokesman Quits After Clashing With RFK Jr: Report

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The top communications official at Health and Human Services has stepped down after just weeks on the job — as it was revealed he clashed with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the measles outbreak gripping Texas, according to multiple reports.

Thomas Corry, the assistant secretary of public affairs, who has only been on the job for two weeks, revealed on Monday that he had submitted his resignation after growing “uneasy” with his boss’ inaction to the deadly outbreak of measles in Texas, Politico reported.

“I want to announce to my friends and colleagues that last Friday I announced my resignation effective immediately,” Corry wrote on his LinkedIn page Monday. “To my colleagues at HHS, I wish you the best and great success.”

Just six days prior, Corry posted a photo of Kennedy presiding over the HHS team with the caption: “@SecKennedy meeting with our team to lay out his goals for improving the health and fitness of Americans.”

There was no immediate word on Corry’s replacement at HHS.

Corry’s announcement came hours after Kennedy penned a “call to action” in the form of an op-ed on Fox News Digital on Sunday to voice his “deep concern” over the spread of the disease in the Lone Star State, marking a stark departure from his downplaying of outbreaks as “not unusual” just last week.

Texas health officials have reported 146 infections since late January, including the country’s first measles-related death in a decade.

Kennedy, who has previously promoted widely circulated conspiracy theories linking vaccines to autism, struck a different tone in the Fox News piece, writing: “Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons.”