Senate Democrats are launching an investigation into Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s changes to vaccine policy, including the remaking of a federal vaccine advisory panel.

In a letter to Kennedy, Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) demanded that he produce communications and other records to show who in the Trump administration determined the legal and public health consequences of the actions related to revamping the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), as well as any vetting process for new members.

Last year, Kennedy fired all 17 sitting members of ACIP and packed the panel with vaccine-skeptical allies.

“The American people deserve to know the reasons that the administration decided to gut ACIP and whether that decision was based on the political and personal agendas of a small group of vaccine cynics who you and President Trump sought to appease,” Wyden and Hassan wrote in the letter.

The lawmakers zeroed in on answers Kennedy gave during a Senate Finance Committee hearing in April, when he told lawmakers that President Trump and senior White House officials personally signed off on his decision to terminate the ACIP members, contradicting his previous claims that he made the decision unilaterally.

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