December 10, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. –Today, Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens formally introduced Articles of Impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy 
Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), citing his dangerous actions that have endangered public health and gutted lifesaving medical research.
“Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has turned his back on science, on public health, and on the American people – spreading conspiracies and lies, driving up costs, and putting lives at risk,” said Congresswoman Stevens. “Under his watch, families are less safe and less healthy, people are paying more for care, lifesaving research has been gutted, and vaccines have been restricted. He has driven up health care costs while tearing down the scientific institutions that keep Michiganders and families across America safe. His actions are reckless, his leadership is harmful, and his tenure has become a direct threat to our nation’s health and security. Congress cannot and will not stand by while one man dismantles decades of medical progress.”
Rep. Stevens’ impeachment effort is supported by Stand Up for Science, an organization dedicated to defending and advancing America’s scientific ecosystem.
“RFK Jr.'s actions are negligent and will result in harm and loss of life. He must be impeached and removed,” said Colette Delawalla, Founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science. “As a scientist and a mother, I am not willing to go back to a time before robust public health interventions. For the first time in human history, we progressed from 30% of babies not making it to adulthood to over 98% surviving to adulthood because of modern medicine and vaccines. Eliminating effective public health interventions with proven track records and dismantling evidence-based science is not the way to promote health and reduce chronic illness. Stand Up For Science is ready to hold Secretary Kennedy accountable.”
Rep. Stevens, who previously called on Secretary Kennedy to resign, introduced legislation to restore his cancer research cuts, and announced she was drafting articles of impeachment in September, said his repeated abuses of power, disregard for science, and pattern of misinformation have left Congress with no choice but to act. Rep. Stevens’ articles formally impeach Secretary Kennedy for “abuse of authority and undermining of the public health.”
Rep. Stevens’ impeachment articles specifically point to:
- RFK Jr.’s abdication of duty by cutting funding for lifesaving research, including:
- RFK Jr. severely restricting access to vaccines, spreading absurd conspiracies, and putting lives in danger:
- He made promises to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy (R-LA), which he has not upheld.
- He pushed wild and unfounded claims in an effort to limit access to Tylenol.
- He canceled research on mRNA vaccines and vaccine hesitancy.
- He oversaw the closure of a network of centers working to prevent future pandemics.
- He alarmingly hired David Geier, a known vaccine skeptic–whom Maryland medical regulators disciplined for practicing medicine without a license–to reinvestigate the long-discredited theory that vaccines cause autism.
- He withdrew federal recommendations for COVID shots for pregnant women and healthy children.
- His appointed panel voted to drop the universal recommendation that infants get vaccinated for Hepatitis B.
- RFK Jr.’s failure to carry out his statutory duties in administering the FDA and CDC:
- He fired every member of the CDC’s vaccine expert panel.
- He has politicized the FDA by calling it a “sock puppet” agency, and oversaw a staffing shortage that has limited the agency's ability to fulfill its public duties.
- He suggested eliminating entire FDA departments.
- He ended public comment for HHS rulemaking, severely limiting the ability for health experts to be involved in HHS policy development, which was widely opposed by major public health advocates and supporters of government transparency.
The full text of Rep. Stevens’ impeachment articles can be read HERE.
Source: Congresswoman Haley Stevens
