\u2018We need to drive this to an outcome,\u2019 the secretary of state said.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n![\"Rubio](\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.theepochtimes.com%2Fassets%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F06%2F02%2Fid6042104-GettyImages-2279436865.jpg&w=1200&q=75\")
Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on June 2, 2026. Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBy Zachary Stieber<\/p>\n\n\n\n
U.S. officials are going to reengage with a global vaccine group called Gavi, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told senators in Washington on June 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Trump administration has been withholding money from Gavi to try to force it to make reforms, including halting distribution of vaccines containing the mercury-based preservative thimerosal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday that President Donald Trump asked the State Department to let Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. \u201cto play a leading role on the Gavi decision, because of his strongly held views with regards to vaccine safety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The State Department is still going to take input from Kennedy and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) but the department made a decision in May that it was going to reengage with Gavi, Rubio said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe’d like to get this issue resolved, and an outcome that\u2019s acceptable both to Congress and also to our goals on global health,\u201d he said. He added later: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t use the word defer, but we have certainly allowed him to play a leading role in determining what we\u2019re going to do next. But right now we\u2019re sort of at a stage we\u2019re going to reengage. We need to drive this to an outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), one of the senators who has urged the administration to release congressionally appropriated funds to Gavi, asked Rubio to keep her updated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHHS and the State Department continue engaging directly with Gavi and remain cautiously optimistic that ongoing discussions can produce greater transparency, accountability, and a constructive path forward,\u201d a spokesperson for HHS told The Epoch Times in an email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gavi did not return a request for comment by time of publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gavi buys vaccines and distributes them to nations around the world. It has a stockpile of 500,000 doses of an Ebola vaccine that targets the Zaire ebolavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An outbreak of Ebola caused by a different strain, for which there are no approved vaccines, is currently spreading in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gavi and its partners have announced funding for vaccine candidates against the strain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) told Rubio in Washington that cuts to early detection systems in Africa resulted in undetected spread of Ebola in Congo this year. Rubio said the outbreak started in a war-torn, isolated area of Congo, and \u201csince that time, our response has been very quick and very rapid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The State Department said May 29 it has committed more than $162 million to combat the outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
And here it comes, more experimental vaccines that won’t be good for your health. GAVI and Bill Gates have been involved in some vaccine atrocities. https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/rubio-says-us-going-to-reengage-with-global-vaccine-alliance-amid-ebola-outbreak-6042099?ea_src=frontpage&ea_med=section-4 \u2018We need to drive this to an outcome,\u2019 the secretary of state said. By Zachary Stieber U.S. officials are going to reengage with a global vaccine group called Gavi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17437,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435\/revisions\/17437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
By Zachary Stieber<\/p>\n\n\n\n
U.S. officials are going to reengage with a global vaccine group called Gavi, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told senators in Washington on June 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Trump administration has been withholding money from Gavi to try to force it to make reforms, including halting distribution of vaccines containing the mercury-based preservative thimerosal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday that President Donald Trump asked the State Department to let Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. \u201cto play a leading role on the Gavi decision, because of his strongly held views with regards to vaccine safety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The State Department is still going to take input from Kennedy and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) but the department made a decision in May that it was going to reengage with Gavi, Rubio said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe’d like to get this issue resolved, and an outcome that\u2019s acceptable both to Congress and also to our goals on global health,\u201d he said. He added later: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t use the word defer, but we have certainly allowed him to play a leading role in determining what we\u2019re going to do next. But right now we\u2019re sort of at a stage we\u2019re going to reengage. We need to drive this to an outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), one of the senators who has urged the administration to release congressionally appropriated funds to Gavi, asked Rubio to keep her updated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHHS and the State Department continue engaging directly with Gavi and remain cautiously optimistic that ongoing discussions can produce greater transparency, accountability, and a constructive path forward,\u201d a spokesperson for HHS told The Epoch Times in an email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gavi did not return a request for comment by time of publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gavi buys vaccines and distributes them to nations around the world. It has a stockpile of 500,000 doses of an Ebola vaccine that targets the Zaire ebolavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An outbreak of Ebola caused by a different strain, for which there are no approved vaccines, is currently spreading in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gavi and its partners have announced funding for vaccine candidates against the strain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) told Rubio in Washington that cuts to early detection systems in Africa resulted in undetected spread of Ebola in Congo this year. Rubio said the outbreak started in a war-torn, isolated area of Congo, and \u201csince that time, our response has been very quick and very rapid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The State Department said May 29 it has committed more than $162 million to combat the outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
And here it comes, more experimental vaccines that won’t be good for your health. GAVI and Bill Gates have been involved in some vaccine atrocities. https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/rubio-says-us-going-to-reengage-with-global-vaccine-alliance-amid-ebola-outbreak-6042099?ea_src=frontpage&ea_med=section-4 \u2018We need to drive this to an outcome,\u2019 the secretary of state said. By Zachary Stieber U.S. officials are going to reengage with a global vaccine group called Gavi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17437,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435\/revisions\/17437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}