“If Secretary Kennedy truly wants to restore confidence in our public health system, then he should let the science speak for itself.” Washington, DC – In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) wrote an op-ed in Newsweek today on the consequences of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s vaccine skepticism. As a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Blunt Rochester has been outspoken in her defense of following the science, not politics, when it comes to vaccines. She has demanded answers from Kennedy on his gutting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and asked pointed questions of Dr. Susan Monarez, the nominee for Director

NEWARK, Del. – U.S. Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester and Chris Coons, and U.S. Representative Sarah McBride (all D-Del.) today joined healthcare providers, food security advocates, environmental leaders, and working Delawareans at the Food Bank of Delaware to denounce the Republican budget bill signed into law by President Trump last week that will take food assistance away from as many as 37,000 Delawareans. The Republican budget bill signed into law on July 4 contains severe cuts to crucial food and healthcare programs in order to rig the tax code even more in favor of the ultra-wealthy, including cutting $186 billion from food assistance programs for vulnerable Americans. Those seeking assistance

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) led 32 of her colleagues in introducing a resolution honoring Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. In the United States, Black women workers are paid just 66 cents for every dollar paid to non-Hispanic White men. If current trends continue, Black women will have to wait, on average, over 200 years to achieve equal pay. Continued disparities not only make it harder for Black women to survive and thrive, but also have a negative impact on the children, families and communities that rely on them. The House companion resolution is being led by U.S. Representative Alma Adams (D-N.C.-12). “America