Senate Republican knocks Trump administration on measles surge: ‘Get vaccinated, you don’t die’

The chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), argued the Trump administration is not promoting vaccinations vigorously enough amid a massive measles outbreak that has claimed multiple lives in 2026. “My concern as a physician is that everyone should be vaccinated for measles,” Cassidy told CNN’s Jake Tapper….