Happy Birthday, Mr. President! 🇺🇸
Your unwavering leadership, courage, and commitment to the American people have inspired a renewed focus on the health and well-being of our nation. Thank you for your tireless dedication to protecting our children, confronting the chronic disease epidemic, and putting the interests of American families first.
It is a privilege to serve in your Cabinet as we work together to Make America Healthy Again and build a stronger, healthier future for every American.
Wishing you a wonderful birthday and another year of strength, success, and service to our great nation.
Last week, I joined @RepVanOrden at Gilbertson Farms in El Mound, Wisconsin, to celebrate National Dairy Month and President Trump's signing of the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act.
This commonsense legislation brings whole milk back to our schools and gives children access to the nutritious foods they need to grow and thrive.
Drink Whole Milk. Eat Real Food.
🧵 Here is the TRUTH: Dangerous gain-of-function research was funded by the U.S. government around the world, directed and approved by people like Dr Fauci. @DNIGabbard exposed that yesterday.
Using U.S. government data, put together and uncovered by career subject matter experts in the Intelligence Community and other government agencies, yesterday’s release highlighted one example of the many overseas biolabs funded by the U.S., the research conducted there, and the significant risks they pose to the world, especially when located in a country at war.
🔗 https://t.co/qL5em30hoF
::Me buying $20k tickets to the NBA finals and rolling into the arena at 10:45pm in time for the last 2 minutes confident I haven’t missed JACK SQUAT::
Facts matter.
@CDCgov has spent more than a year preparing for the FIFA World Cup 2026™ tournaments, by:
▶️Coordinating public health monitoring across host cities, local health jurisdictions and FIFA
▶️Tracking threats including hantavirus, measles, Ebola, and other emerging diseases
▶️Integrating laboratory, syndromic, wastewater, genomic, and event-based surveillance data
▶️ Maintaining 24/7 Port Health operations at U.S. ports of entry
▶️Publishing https://t.co/Mdn2Cm7kuh for priority public health messaging
▶️ Launching a dedicated World Cup data dashboard for state and local health partners
▶️ Providing health, safety and travel guidance for fans, players, and communities
▶️ Developing international travel guidance, including public health protocols with host countries Mexico and Canada
CDC is actively monitoring, coordinating, and preparing — not standing on the sidelines.
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.
In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.
https://t.co/pLMD0krc69
Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story?
You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements.
I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff.
In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility.
I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times.
Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention.
Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months).
His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats.
Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.
HHS has requested a review of allegations involving @CAIRNational and its affiliates @CAIRCalifornia and @CAIRWashington regarding the use of federal grant funds. Americans deserve full transparency when taxpayer dollars are involved. If there is evidence of fraud, abuse, or ties to designated terrorist organizations, we will act.
I have shared these concerns with @SecRubio and encouraged a full @StateDept review of any information relevant to this matter.
Accountability is not optional. Protecting the integrity of federal programs is our responsibility.
Addiction has touched nearly every American family. Together, we can help more Americans find recovery and reclaim their lives.
Great American Recovery Co-Chair @KathrynBurgum and I want to hear directly from you. Share your ideas, experiences, and recommendations through our public Request for Information. Tell us what’s working, what’s failing, and how the federal government can better support treatment, recovery, and healing.
Submit your comments at https://t.co/g5WQphz8ZL.
🚨 HUGE 🚨
73 medical schools have now joined the Trump administration’s Nutrition Education Pledge after 19 schools signed on today.
Nutrition is a powerful tools to prevent and treat chronic disease. Thanks to @POTUS, medical education is starting to reflect that reality. 🇺🇸
This year’s #MonacoGP ended up in an 8-lap chaotic finale. Super-exciting!
Congrats to Kimi Antonelli — an epic race, finishing 6 seconds ahead of the pack! 🏎️ 🏁