His team at HHS has paused critical communications and meetings, right as public health officials are worried about bird flu.

President Donald Trump's first week in office came with big changes to U.S. health agencies, including the pausing of all external communications and banning travel.

Federal health officials have been instructed to temporarily stop any “external communications” to the public, according to two officials with knowledge of the situation.

RFK's hearing hasn't even started yet and the White House has already attacked vaccines, birth control and the WHO

The first week of President Donald Trump’s second term included several executive orders and actions that will be detrimental to public health.

Disinformation experts may hate President Trump’s executive order ending “the federal government’s pressure campaign on social media companies,” but Reason’s Robby Soave deems it entirely

The halt has frozen research grants, meetings and key health updates. “Everything is basically in chaos,” said one cancer researcher.

The two-sentence long note to HHS Inspector General Christi Grimm cited “changing priorities” under Trump's new administration, according to a copy obtained by ABC News.

The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.

The Trump administration has promised an overhaul of various government agencies. What will happen to the Health Department?

The Trump administration has put a freeze on many federal health agency communications with the public through at least the end of the month.

We know the kind of damage that will be done and the lives that will be lost if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is put in charge of our health care system because we've seen it in action. Kennedy has a well-documented history of opposing life-saving vaccines, and he has pledged to stop funding research for treatments and cures for deadly diseases.