{"id":22160,"date":"2026-05-02T00:21:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-administration-appeals-court-order-in-effort-to-cut-vaccine-recommendations-for-kids\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T00:21:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:21:53","slug":"trump-administration-appeals-court-order-in-effort-to-cut-vaccine-recommendations-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-administration-appeals-court-order-in-effort-to-cut-vaccine-recommendations-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration appeals court order in effort to cut vaccine recommendations for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div>\n<p>                                <bsp-timestamp data-timestamp=\"1777568796000\" data-recent-thresholdinhours=\"1\">                    <template data-date-tpl>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<\/template>                    <span data-date><\/span>                <\/bsp-timestamp>            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                                    <bsp-page-actions>                            <\/bsp-page-actions>                                                            <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; The Trump administration is appealing a judge&rsquo;s order as it tries to cut the number of vaccines recommended for every child in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The appeal filed Wednesday was a response to a <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kennedy-acip-vaccines-cdc-fc758951019f41d2f5e81e4e2faa22d3\">March 16 court order<\/a><\/span>  that blocked the decision by President Donald Trump&rsquo;s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/childhood-vaccine-schedule-trump-rfk-hhs-9b8df9e2767c1261aaac4e2331e77fa3\">to end broad recommendations<\/a><\/span>  for all children to be vaccinated against <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-flu-cases-cdc-subclade-k-29cc5a68eb100585c8e0dbd2ec47b3eb\">flu<\/a><\/span>rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, some forms of meningitis and RSV, a respiratory virus.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy&rsquo;s order also stopped a meeting of a Kennedy-appointed <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vaccine-committee-cdc-7a81bdbc08b3cca7db18e884e27df666\">vaccine advisory committee<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>The judge&rsquo;s order remains in effect while the appeal is considered.<\/p>\n<p>The government&rsquo;s one-sentence filing did not say why the block should be lifted. U.S. health officials did not immediately comment on the filing, or respond to a question about why they waited six weeks to file an appeal. <\/p>\n<p>The appeal is the latest development in a lawsuit filed in July by the American Academy of Pediatrics and some other medical groups. The lawsuit in federal court in Boston originally focused on Kennedy&rsquo;s decision to stop recommending COVID-19 vaccinations for most children and pregnant women.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was updated as Kennedy took more steps that alarmed medical societies, causing the plaintiffs to ask Murphy to take steps to address those policy changes too.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the plaintiffs amended the lawsuit to stop the scaling back of the nation&rsquo;s childhood vaccination schedule. They also asked the court to look at Kennedy&rsquo;s actions concerning the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises public health officials on what vaccines to recommend to doctors and patients.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, a leading anti-vaccine activist before becoming the nation&rsquo;s top health official, fired the entire 17-member panel last year and replaced it with a group that includes several anti-vaccine voices.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy, who was nominated to the bench by Democratic President Joe Biden, said Kennedy&rsquo;s reconstitution of ACIP likely violated federal law. The judge ordered the appointments &mdash; and all decisions made by the reformulated committee &mdash; put on hold.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Republican administration <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vaccine-committee-rules-update-acip-kennedy-cdc-88ef744cd223fc9b53b8f94f941f28d5\">updated the committee&rsquo;s charter<\/a><\/span>  to broadens qualifications for panel members in ways that would allow the inclusion of Kennedy allies. That move did not resolve the legal challenge, according to Richard Hughes IV, a lawyer representing the pediatrics group.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes this week said he was disappointed that the government decided to appeal but said he expected to prevail. He pledged to bring an end to Kennedy&rsquo;s &ldquo;steady destruction of vaccine policy and public health.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute&rsquo;s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vaccines-lawsuit-kennedy-children-immunizations-19bc1c9c13b56d6607efb2bdfcf7dfc7\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; The Trump administration is appealing a judge&rsquo;s order as it tries to cut the number of vaccines recommended for every child in the United States. The appeal filed Wednesday was a response to a March 16 court order that blocked the decision by President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}