2026-08-16T15:54:34.775Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
共和党参议员比尔·卡西迪——唐纳德·特朗普总统日益尖锐的批评者——周日称，总统提出的将麻疹、腮腺炎和风疹疫苗分开接种的行政命令“诸多方面都错了”，其中一个原因是该命令将要求儿童接种更多针剂。
“我们不妨从家长的角度来看待这个问题，”身为医生、同时担任参议院健康、教育、劳工与养老金委员会主席的卡西迪在接受CNN《国情咨文》节目采访时表示。“现在，家长不用带孩子去医生那里两次就能完成疫苗接种，而是要去六次……原本父母只需要请假两次带孩子看医生，现在他们得请假六次，或是用假期、带薪事假带孩子去看医生。这太不方便了，还会导致收入进一步减少。”
“总统的提议最终会让更多儿童患病。谁会希望这样？没人应该希望看到这种情况，”卡西迪说道。
在随后做客ABC新闻《本周》节目时，这位路易斯安那州参议员表示：“这就是为什么总统的民调支持率在下降，因为你们忽视了家长的经济负担，忽视了美国家庭的便利问题，忽视了推高医疗成本的根源。”
CNN已联系白宫，征求其对卡西迪批评的回应。
特朗普的行政命令称，用于预防麻疹、腮腺炎和风疹的联合疫苗MMR“应当分三次接种单疾病疫苗”，并且所有儿童疫苗都应当在不同的就诊时段接种。
免疫学家和疫苗专家表示，此举毫无合理依据。
“我们目前的做法不会带来任何坏处，”特朗普周一在椭圆形办公室发表讲话时称。“最糟糕的情况也不过是什么都没发生。我们不会有任何损失。”
这项行政命令是对卡西迪的最新打击。此前尽管对罗伯特·F·肯尼迪 Jr.的反疫苗观点深感担忧，卡西迪仍投下了决定性一票，确认其为卫生与公众服务部部长。
在那次确认投票前，卡西迪从肯尼迪那里争取到了一系列承诺——包括两人将建立“前所未有的紧密合作关系”，以及肯尼迪不会试图破坏政府的疫苗政策。
但仅在数月后，肯尼迪就打破了这项协议：他改组了政府主要的疫苗咨询小组，放大了对关键疫苗政策的质疑，同时淡化了美国数十年来最严重的麻疹疫情。
去年年底，时任美国疾病控制与预防中心主任被突然解职，随后肯尼迪推动修订美国儿童疫苗接种计划，两人本就冷淡的关系彻底破裂。
肯尼迪的盟友后来与特朗普一起公开支持针对卡西迪的党内初选挑战，并在今年春季成功阻止了卡西迪获得连任提名。
自那以后，卡西迪表现出更强的意愿批评特朗普和肯尼迪，在伊朗战争以及特朗普设立“反武器化”基金等关键议题上与总统立场对立。据熟悉两人的消息人士透露，卡西迪和肯尼迪之间实际上已经没有往来，近几个月来两人几乎从未交谈过。
尽管如此，卡西迪仍强调，尽管他现在可以更自由地表达观点，但他在参议院的最后几个月并非为了报复。
但这并未阻止他周日猛烈抨击总统的最新政策，他此前也在一系列社交媒体帖子中表达了类似批评。
“如果这件事没有潜在的灾难性后果，你可能会对这样的言论笑出声来，”卡西迪在谈到特朗普所称的“什么都不会发生”时对CNN记者杰克·塔珀说道，而专家们则表示这将大幅重塑美国的疫苗政策。
“作为一名医生，我见过人们死于或重病于可通过疫苗预防的疾病，因此此举有可能降低儿童针对致命疾病的防护能力，”卡西迪说道。
他补充道，如果特朗普想要改善儿童健康并减轻家长的经济负担，“那么这件事从根本上就做错了。”
Trump’s vaccine order is counterproductive and ‘wrong on so many levels,’ GOP lawmaker says
2026-08-16T15:54:34.775Z / CNN
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, an increasingly sharp critic of President Donald Trump, on Sunday called the president’s vaccine order to separate injections for measles, mumps and rubella “wrong on so many levels” because, among other things, it would require children to receive more shots.
“Let’s just take it from the perspective of the parent,” Cassidy, a doctor who chairs the Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” show. “Now, instead of going to the doctor twice to get their child vaccinated, they have to go six times … Instead of mom or dad missing work twice, you know, coming out of their pocket, if you will, to take their child to the doctor, they have to miss work or take vacation or personal leave six times. This is inconvenient. It’s going to contribute to an increased loss of income.”
“The president’s proposal is going to end up with more children being sick. And so who wants that? No one should want that,” Cassidy said.
During a later appearance on ABC News’ “This Week,” the Louisiana senator said: “This is why the president’s poll numbers are down, because you’ve lost sight of affordability for the parent, you’ve lost sight of the convenience for the American family, you’ve lost sight of that which is driving higher costs in health care.”
CNN has reached out the White House for a reaction to Cassidy’s criticism.
Trump’s order says the combination vaccine that protects against measles, mumps and rubella, called MMR, “should be administered in three separate single-disease shots,” and all childhood immunizations should be given at separate medical visits.
Immunologists and vaccine experts say there’s no valid reason to do that.
“Nothing bad can happen from what we are doing,” Trump said while speaking in the Oval Office on Monday. “The worst thing that could happen would be nothing happens. We’re not going to lose anything.”
The executive order marked the latest blow for Cassidy, who cast a deciding vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary despite deep concerns about his anti-vaccine views.
Ahead of that confirmation vote, Cassidy secured a series of commitments from Kennedy — including that the two would have an “unprecedentedly close collaborative working relationship” and Kennedy would not seek to undermine the government’s vaccine policies.
But Kennedy began testing that pact within months, overhauling the government’s main vaccine advisory panel and amplifying skepticism of key vaccine policies — all while downplaying what has grown into the worst measles outbreak in the country in decades.
Their already-frosty relationship hit a breaking point late last year, after the abrupt firing of the then-head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kennedy’s subsequent push to revamp the nation’s childhood vaccine schedule.
Kennedy’s allies later joined Trump in openly backing a primary challenge to Cassidy that successfully denied him renomination earlier this spring.
Since then, Cassidy has shown far greater willingness to criticize Trump and Kennedy, opposing the president on key issues such as the Iran war and his effort to establish an “anti-weaponization” fund. Cassidy and Kennedy’s relationship is effectively non-existent, people close to the two men said, and the two have rarely spoken in the last several months.
Still, Cassidy has stressed that despite feeling freer to express his views, his final months in the Senate are not meant to serve as a revenge tour.
That did not prevent him on Sunday from lashing out at the president’s latest policy, which he has also done in a series of social media posts.
“If it wasn’t so potentially tragic, you would break out laughing at a comment like that,” Cassidy, told CNN’s Jake Tapper about Trump’s claim that nothing would happen as a result of what experts say is a dramatic reshaping of US vaccine policy.
“As a physician who has seen people either die or get seriously ill from diseases that can be prevented by vaccines, this has the potential to decrease the protection that a child would receive against diseases which can be deadly,” Cassidy said.
He added that if Trump is looking to improve children’s health while helping parents with costs, “this is the wrong thing to do.”
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