RFK Jr. Puts Purple-Haired Democrat in Her Place After She Blames Him for Measles ‘Outbreak’

Rep. Rosa DeLauro just got served a piping hot plate of reality, courtesy of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and it was absolutely brutal — and long overdue. During a House Appropriations Committee hearing, DeLauro tried to pin the recent uptick in measles cases on RFK Jr., blaming what she called his “dangerous vaccine skepticism” and “misinformation.” But instead of scoring political points, she walked right into a buzzsaw of facts.

Let’s get one thing straight: DeLauro, with her signature purple hair and unhinged rhetoric, is one of the most embarrassing fixtures in Congress. This is the same woman who has no problem funding abortion up to birth with taxpayer money but suddenly pretends to care about the health of American kids when it gives her a chance to smear President Trump and anyone affiliated with the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda.

There are currently about 1,100 confirmed measles cases in the U.S., and the media has predictably launched into full hysteria mode, using it as another cudgel to attack the Trump Administration and RFK Jr. What they won’t tell you is that most of these cases are linked to illegal immigration and unvaccinated individuals crossing the southern border — not some anti-vax campaign by the HHS Secretary.

And guess what? RFK Jr. has publicly supported the measles vaccine — he’s made it clear that he’s not against vaccines, just wants them to be safe and thoroughly tested. But why let the truth get in the way of a good smear, right?

When DeLauro attempted to lay the measles outbreak at his feet, RFK Jr. shut it down with surgical precision.

“We have about 1,100 measles cases in this country,” he began. “The growth rate last year was 15 additional, so we have plateaued.” And then came the knockout punch: Europe has 6,000 cases — ten times the U.S. total. Canada? 1,500 cases with one-eighth our population. Mexico? The same number of cases as the U.S., but they gained 300 more just last week.

So not only was DeLauro wrong — she was embarrassingly wrong. But don’t expect her or the media to issue a correction. The goal was never facts. The goal was politics, plain and simple.

Here’s the real headline: RFK Jr. stood up to a swamp creature and defended both science and common sense. And in today’s political climate, that’s a rare thing indeed.