Letter to sec Kennedy and president trump
September 14, 2026
Dear Secretary Kennedy and President Trump,
As influential leaders within the MAHA and health freedom movements, we are writing to object to policies under your oversight related to the mRNA platform and to call you to act on our policy goals.
While the centerpiece of the MAHA and health freedom agenda has been removal of mRNA shots, you have failed to take decisive action on this front despite overwhelming credible evidence of the harm of this technology. Instead, your policies related to mRNA technology are neutered and self-defeating, putting pregnant women and children at risk, misleading parents and eroding their rights, and failing to help those harmed by vaccines.
If you continue to ignore our central issue of removing the mRNA platform, the MAHA and health freedom movements will withdraw their support of you, and you will face the political consequences.
Our objections
We are writing to express deep concerns about policies emerging from HHS, the CDC, and the FDA. Specifically, we object to:
The administration of COVID mRNA shots to over 50 million Americans this year. Included are 7 million children, despite no studies demonstrating prevention of hospitalization or death and voluminous data demonstrating severe harms, including deaths of children (at least 10 acknowledged by the FDA to date).
The appointment of Erica Schwartz to lead the CDC, who declared during her Senate confirmation hearing that mRNA technology is safe and effective. As you are well aware, it is not possible to make legally valid determinations of safety or efficacy for EUA Countermeasures under ongoing public health emergency under the PREP Act. No technology can be presumptively deemed safe or effective for medical applications for all people or all ages and health statuses.
The approval of a new mRNA flu shot that was not tested against a true placebo, lacks long-term safety data, did not measure hospitalization or death outcomes, showed significantly higher side effects, higher deaths, and was not compared to early treatment or any alternative prophylaxis.
The absence of meaningful help for those injured from the mRNA shots.
The HHS award of $1.24 billion contracts with Pfizer for future mRNA shots, including for children.
Failure of the CDC to provide up-to-date cancer statistics amid rising concerns of accelerating incidence of cancer linked to mRNA shots.
Failure to enforce the contractual obligations of mRNA shot providers to report adverse events to VAERS.
Removal of the mRNA platform from the market remains one of the central goals of the grassroots medical freedom movement.
Millions of concerned citizens set aside partisan differences and identities to support the historic MAGA/MAHA alliance. Instead of decisive policy actions on these core issues, we see distractions, linguistic misdirections, and watered-down announcements that avoid serious action on the deadly mRNA injections.
Meaningless and constitution-corroding executive action
Despite the Executive Order from August 10, 2026 reducing the recommended vaccination schedule from 17 to 11 types of vaccines, it simultaneously elevates pneumococcal and HPV shots into the “universal core recommendation”. The elevation of HPV shots to universal core recommendation is surprising given Merck just reached a $50M settlement1 with 200 plaintiffs who alleged the Gardasil HPV vaccine caused autoimmunity. In addition, the EO promotes the unconstitutional notion of “shared” decision-making between the federal government and parents with respect to the mRNA and some additional vaccines. This Orwellian language does not belong in a free society.
Overwhelming credible data calls for the removal of mRNA
We do not need more data to determine whether mRNA products should be removed from the market. The data are already in from multiple credible sources, including over 4,550 peer-reviewed publications, the Pfizer documents released through Aaron Siri’s lawsuits, the VAERS and V-safe datasets, and data from foreign governments. These sources document catastrophic levels of deaths and serious injuries from the mRNA injections, as well as reproductive harm, including approximately 400% increase in miscarriage rates.
Self-defeating action puts pregnant women at risk, erodes parental rights
You stated that the shots were removed from the CDC recommendation for pregnant women. Yet pregnancy remains listed as a “high-risk” health category in the revised FDA policy for mRNA shots. It is especially troubling that the new versions of these injections are recommended for all pregnant women, even though this platform has never been tested and proven safe in pregnancy. Pregnant women have not been made safer by this linguistic shift. Removing the mRNA injection from CDC recommendations for pregnant women and healthy children is meaningless when the American Academy of Pediatrics, to which the vast majority of pediatricians belong, still recommends all babies get a mRNA shot.
Further, the CDC still recommends the shots for every child except those labeled “healthy.” Those outside of this category include children with minor ailments such as an acute illness or allergies. The risks of these shots far outweigh any benefits, particularly given they now carry an FDA warning for increased risk of myocarditis and pericarditis in children.
Parental choice is not realistic when parents are not getting informed consent on the true risks of these products. CDC language appears to erode parental rights. Even for healthy children, the CDC frames the decision as one that parents must “share” with healthcare providers—including pharmacists who lack authority to treat patients. By treating the decision to inject a child with mRNA as a “shared decision,” while treating routine injections as the default, a dangerous legal precedent is being set that assigns powers to the federal government that have historically belonged solely to parents.
Failure to remove labeling of COVID-19 injections as FDA-approved
The CDC’s COVID shot policy claims to be evidence-based. However, no evidence has been provided—and none exists to our knowledge—showing that the categories of people labeled “vulnerable” under this policy would benefit from mRNA injections. A formal Citizen Petition authored by Children’s Health Defense, asking to properly relabel the COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna as “EUA Countermeasures” has been pending with HHS since December 8, 2025.
Under the PREP Act declaration for COVID emergency, the products that went on the market de novo as “EUA Countermeasures” – a non-investigational legal status – cannot be declared “safe, effective and fully approved by the FDA” without complying with the investigational pharmaceutical product requirements under the applicable federal law. The PREP Act was extended by the Biden Administration in December 2024 and upheld by you to last until December 31, 2029. The COVID-19 injections never underwent legally valid investigational assessment for safety and efficacy, being subject to only emergency distribution requirements, since the PREP Act precludes use of bio-chemical compounds in clinical investigation. This Petition gathered a record number of public comments in support of it (over 104,000). Your failure to respond to this Petition speaks louder than any placating HHS / Trump Administration messaging on vaccine schedule issues in advance of the midterm elections.
Conflating clearly established risks with an automatically assumed benefit from a product that remains a poorly-regulated, liability-free EUA Countermeasure under the PREP Act emergency declaration defies both scientific reason and common sense.
The health freedom movement will withdraw support without action.
We did not fight to place you in positions of leadership so that our clearly stated policy goals would suffer a “bait and switch” that rebranded the grassroots powerful objection to the damaging mRNA platform as a concern about coloring agents in Skittles. Health freedom is not the possession of Secretary Kennedy or his advisors. The health freedom agenda arose from the voices of millions of those impacted by the harmful government policies during the pandemic. The MAHA/health freedom vote was a historic game-changer. Neither Republicans nor the Democrats could have prevailed without this critical swing vote.
Health freedom voters can and will walk away if we continue to see inaction—or condescending non-policy—on our core issues.
If you continue to ignore the centerpiece of our policy agenda—removing all mRNA products covered by PREP Act emergency declarations entirely from the market—you will pay a political price. We will run our own candidates at the state level, and we will support other challengers and sponsors who share our values and advance our draft bills at the federal level for the midterms and for 2028.
Our call to action
We ask you to deliver our actual policy goals in the near term, or face the political consequences:
Ban mRNA/gene therapy-derived technologies for all vaccines, due to their demonstrated abject failure regarding safety, efficacy, and disease prevention after more than four years of real-world use and billions of doses administered.
Terminate the PREP Act declaration for COVID injections, as no emergency exists. Extending this declaration, with its ironclad liability shield for manufacturers and administrators, serves no public health interest.
Recommend that Congress repeal the PREP Act entirely, due to its numerous constitutional conflicts.
Ban pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer advertising, as is the practice in every other country except New Zealand.
Review and revise current HHS-level policies that create perverse incentives for healthcare providers to engage in medical coercion, including but not limited to vaccinations.
End conflicts of interest at the CDC, FDA, NIH, and NIAID.
Signatories:
Mary Talley Bowden, MD, Americans for Health Freedom
Joe Varon, MD, President and CMO, Independent Medical Alliance
Peter McCullough, MD, President, McCullough Foundation
Sasha Latypova, Independent Investigator and Writer, "Due Diligence and Art"
Andy Schmitt, The Paradox Press
Lynn Fynn, MD, Global COVID Summit
Shannon Joy, The Shannon Joy Show
Kirk Moore, MD, Ex-Defendant, Freedom Surgical and Aesthetics
Brad Skistimas, Five Times August
Catherine Austin Fitts, The Solari Report
Jimmy Dore, Host of “The Jimmy Dore Show”
Bret Weinstein, PhD
Steven Kirsch, Founder, Vaccine Safety Research Foundation
Katarina Lindley, DO FACOFP, Americans for Health Freedom
Molly Rutherford, MD, Americans for Health Freedom
Brian Roberts, Americans for Health Freedom
Dr. Henry Ealy, Energetic Health Institute
Allen and Taylor Martin, Parents of COVID vaccine victim Trista Martin
Dan Hartman, Father of COVID vaccine victim Sean Hartman
Erica Samp, Vaccine-injured mother from Iowa with Federal lawsuit pending
Harry Fisher, EMT, Medical Freedom Activist
Liz Churchill, Medical Freedom Activist
Mark Brody, MD
John Humiston, MD
Mary Kelly Sutton, MD
William Campbell Douglass III, MD, MS - DutyToDissent.Substack.com
Kevin McCairn, PhD, Synpatek Labs
James Thorp, MD, ObGYN - Maternal Fetal Medicine
Michelle A. Cretta, MD, Past Executive Director of the American College of Pediatricians
Joel Wallskog, MD, Co-Chair React19
Jennifer Hibberd, DDS, FRCDC, Global COVID Summit
Avery B. Brinkley, Jr., MD
Marcus Wheeler, MD
Kenneth G. Varley, MD, FRCPC, BSc, MSc, MBA, Southern Pain Specialists
Ora Burstein, MD
Susan Lee, MD
Dana H. Granberg-Nill, MD, COO Goldcare.com
Clayton Baker, MD, Brownstone Institute Senior Scholar, Global Wellness Forum Council
Edward Szall, CEO, TLM Global, Producer, Died Suddenly
Russ Gonnering, MD, MMM, FACS, CPHQ(ret)
Daniel Stock, MD, Senior Fellow, Independent Medical Alliance
Carrie S Cannon, MD, MS, CTP
Gayln Perry, MD, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, The Perry Center for Pediatric and Adult Sleep Care
Stella Immanuel, MD, Faith and Freedom
Culpepper McCuller, MD, The Informed Health Initiative
Richard Bartlett, MD, Texas HHS Meritorious Service Award, Texas Health Disparities Taskforce
Joseph Guarino, MD, Piedmont Occupational and Urgent Care
Pete Chambers, LTC (Ret), DO
Marsha Blakeslee, DO, Personaldocs LLC
Richard Edgerly, MD
Kelly Victory, MD, President, Victory Health
Bradley Banko, MD
Ben Marble, MD, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
Kimberly Biss, MD, FACOG, Senior OBGYN Fellow for Independent Medical Alliance
Sean Troxclair MD, Informed Health Initiative
Arden Andersen, DO, MSPH, PhD
Karl Lambert, ARNP
Nancy Benedict, RN
Michelle Simpson, RN
Cynthia Shoemake, RN
Tamra Kelly, MSN, CRNA, APRN
Deanna Kline, AGNP-C, MSN, RN, Author, Substack NPTru4u
Dariusz Brzezinkski DC
Christina Flaming, CRNA, DNAP
Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, Epidemiologist, McCullough Foundation
Tess Lawrie, PhD, Founder, World Council for Health
Lisa Lopes, World Council for Health
Mark Trozzi, MD, World Council for Health
Geeta Chougule, World Council for Health
Greta Crawford, Survivor of COVID Hospital Protocol, Founder of ProtocolKills.com
Tom Renz, Esq.
Jeremy Friedman, Esq.
Ivan Raiklin, Esq., Green Beret Lieutenant Colonel (ret)
Brian Festa, Esq.
Jon Fleetwood, Investigative Journalist
John Davidson, Director, “Epidemic of Fraud”
Jeffrey Tucker, The Brownstone Institute
Debbie Lerman, Independent Investigator and Writer, Substack & Brownstone Institute
Edward Dowd, Phinance Technologies
Sayer Ji, Founder Restore the 1st and Greenmedinfo, Chairman Global Wellness Forum
Buckley Carlson, Campaign & Messaging Strategist
Thomas F. Haviland, 2022-2025 "Worldwide Embalmer Blood Clot Survey”
Dan Twelmeyer, Medical Freedom Activist, Iowa