Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee on Education and the American Family, and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), led 9 their colleagues in sending a letter demanding answers from Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on the abrupt and unprecedented mass firing of Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) employees. HRSA is the primary agency tasked with improving access to health care for vulnerable populations, including uninsured and underinsured children and families. The letter was also signed by Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Bernie

Washington, DC – Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement reacting to the first publicly held meeting of CDC vaccine advisors under HHS Secretary Robert. F. Kennedy Jr. The meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), was initially scheduled for February but was postponed, raising concerns about political interreference in vaccine policy under the leadership of Secretary Kennedy, a known vaccine skeptic. The two-day meeting began today. Senator Blunt Rochester led her colleagues in urging HHS to reconsider the original postponement of proceedings of the Advisory Committee. She also pressed HHS Secretary Kennedy on allowing ACIP Committee members to

Wilmington, Del. – Today, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) was in New Castle County shining a light on the impact that the Trump administration’s cuts to essential programs are having in Delaware. From the Food Bank of Delaware to Henrietta Johnson Medical Center, organizations who have served Delawareans for years are finding it harder to do their jobs. “While Republicans in Washington are advancing legislation that would make drastic and deadly cuts to essential programs like Medicaid, communities in Delaware are already finding it harder to access lifesaving services,” said Senator Blunt Rochester. “We need to be supporting our food banks and federally qualified health centers, not