Breaking: HHS to Announce ‘Certain Interventions’ Behind Rising Autism Rates, RFK Jr. Tells Trump Cabinet

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said today during a Trump administration Cabinet meeting that his agency is on track to announce the findings of an ongoing study on the causes of autism next month.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said today during a Trump administration Cabinet meeting that his agency is on track to announce the findings of an ongoing study on the causes of autism next month.

“We’re finding interventions, certain interventions now that are clearly almost certainly causing autism, and we’re going to be able to address those in September,” Kennedy said.

🚨 BREAKING: Trump asks RFK Jr. about the “horror show” of autism in America.

Kennedy responds: “We’ll have announcements in September. We’re finding interventions that are almost certainly causing autism—and we’re going to address them.”

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Kennedy noted that in 1978, fewer than 1 in every 10,000 children had autism. Today, the numbers are about 1 in 31 nationally, he said.

President Donald Trump responded that “there has to be something artificially causing this, meaning a drug or something.”

Trump said that if Kennedy could get to the roots of the problem, the administration would be able to do something to address it. “I look forward to that press conference, he said. “That’s going to be a great thing.”