Donald Trump and his dangerous health secretary Bobby Kennedy Jr. struck another blow against public health by issuing an executive order intending to space out childhood vaccinations and to separate out the common measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, replicating a push at the CDC that had been blocked by a federal judge.

RFK Jr. should be impeached and removed by Congress for his assault against the American people.

Children will be sickened, and possibly die, because of this, which runs counter to decades of established safe and effective medical practices. But it plays into the paranoid vein that vaccines cause autism, a pernicious falsehood that Trump and RFK Jr. have ridden for years.

Despite the clear dangers here, let’s not lose sight of the fact that the president cannot in fact rule by decree, much as he’d like to. The order calls for the spacing out of vaccinations and the end of certain vaccine mandates, but the........

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