How RFK Jr.’s MAHA agenda keeps hitting roadblocks | CNN Politics

For more than a month, President Donald Trump’s pick for surgeon general, Casey Means, has sought private meetings with the two Republican senators threatening to sink her nomination. But those meetings haven’t happened, two people familiar with the matter said, with Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins remaining noncommittal about their votes. Murkowski told CNN in mid-March she’s “not enthusiastic about her.” The senators’ skepticism has effectively stalled Means’ candidacy, dealing a major blow to the man who championed her rise, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda. It’s the latest rebuke for Kennedy, who over the last several months has suffered a series of setbacks that have sapped his influence among Republicans and left him diminished within an administration where some officials view him — and his vaccine actions — as a potential liability in the upcoming midterm elections. RFK Jr. pledged to fight Lyme disease. Does that include supporting a vaccine? A federal judge recently reversed Kennedy’s most significant childhood vaccine changes, and the administration’s search for a new

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