Voters in the 14th Congressional District will pick a replacement for former Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, who resigned earlier this year.
\n\nDemocrats in both chambers are calling on Trump to rescind his executive order that aims to reduce the number of universally recommended vaccines for children and separate the MMR vaccine into individual shots.
\n\nIn a letter shared first with NBC News, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., were joined by 22 other Democrats in the Senate and 67 in the House, led by Rep. Kim Schrier, D-Wash., to say that Trump's order from earlier this month “overrides decades of scientific evidence and sows fear, chaos, and confusion.”
\n\nThe stakes are particularly high, the lawmakers wrote, as measles cases in the U.S. this year are already higher than the annual totals recorded in any of the last 35 years.
\n\n“The result will not be safer or healthier children; it will be a continued decline in vaccination rates, recurring disease outbreaks, higher healthcare costs, and school disruptions that cause learning loss,” they wrote.
\n\nThe lawmakers called the order part of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s effort to overhaul the childhood vaccine schedule, a move they…
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