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Trump Signs Executive Order Cutting Recommended Childhood Vaccines to 11 and Splitting Up MMR Shot
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday, August 10, 2026, calling for a significant overhaul of the federal childhood vaccine schedule. The order narrows the administration's recognized core vaccine recommendations to 11 shots and directs that the combination measles, mumps and rubella vaccine be broken into three separate single-disease shots, a change that goes against broad scientific consensus. Trump also falsely linked childhood vaccines to autism at the signing, a claim contradicted by decades of scientific evidence.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic, was present at the Oval Office signing. The order additionally directs the Justice Department to pressure states to reduce the number of vaccines required for school attendance, a step legal experts expect will face court challenges.
The moves represent the most sweeping federal action yet to reshape childhood immunization policy under the Trump administration.
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