Following chaos and staff shakeups in the Department of Health and Human Services, over 1,000 current and former department employees signed a letter calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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The employees cited Kennedy’s recent ousting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Susan Monarez. They also accused Kennedy of appointing “political ideologues” to positions of authority.

“We believe health policy should be based in strong, evidence-based principles rather than partisan politics. But under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, HHS policies are placing the health of all Americans at risk, regardless of their politics,” the letter says.

“Should he decline to resign, we call upon the President and U.S. Congress to appoint a new Secretary of Health and Human Services, one whose qualifications and experience ensure that health policy is informed by independent and unbiased peer-reviewed science. We expect those in leadership to act when the health of Americans is at stake,” the letter continues.

This letter comes after the Trump administration fired CDC Director Susan Monarez. Monarez’s ouster came after she refused Secretary Kennedy’s “directives to adopt new limitations on the availability of some vaccines, including for approvals for COVID-19 vaccines,” according to Fox.

These employees are also not the only ones to take issue with the Secretary’s recent actions. Senator Bernie Sanders also recently called for Secretary Kennedy’s resignation, accusing him of “endangering the health of the American people now and into the future” in an op-ed for The New York Times.

The White House, meanwhile, has defended the firing, arguing the President has the authority to oust “those who are not aligned with his mission.” In a statement to reporters, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that President Trump “and Secretary Kennedy are committed to restoring trust and transparency and credibility to the CDC by ensuring their leadership and their decisions are more public-facing, more accountable.”

As officials and employees push back on Secretary Kennedy, let’s pray for our leaders in the Trump administration. Let’s ask God to make them wise and serpents and innocent and doves, and let’s pray they hear His voice above all others.

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(Excerpt from Fox News. Photo Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)