RFK Jr. Denies CDC Is Spending $1.2 Billion on COVID-19 Vaccines

The health secretary has been under pressure to cancel the contracts.

Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 22, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has responded after critics voiced opposition to newly posted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contracts for COVID-19 vaccines.

“The claim that CDC has already spent $1.24 billion on COVID-19 vaccines is simply wrong,” Kennedy wrote on X on June 18.