More than 1,000 current and former Department of Health and Human Services employees slammed Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership in a letter on Wednesday, calling on him to resign for “compromising the health of this nation.”

The letter was also addressed to members of Congress and followed a turbulent week at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which Kennedy oversees. The Trump administration announced that it fired newly confirmed CDC Director Susan Monarez, which prompted four other senior officials at the public health agency to resign in protest. Monarez was reportedly pushed out after she refused to sign off on new vaccine restrictions.

“Secretary Kennedy continues to endanger the nation’s health,” the employees wrote in Wednesday’s letter. They cited several reasons: the facilitation of Monarez’s firing, the resignations of longtime CDC leaders, the appointment of what they called “political ideologues” to key positions, and the rescinding of the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorizations for COVID-19 vaccines, among others.

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