Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The New Mexico Department of Health announced Wednesday it will continue to recommend its full suite of childhood vaccinations despite a recent shakeup of federal vaccine guidelines. The announcement comes on the heels of an unprecedented change at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention slashing childhood recommendations from 17 to 11 total vaccines.

Democratic U.S. Senator for New Mexico, Ben Ray Lujan, had sharp words for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a Senate Finance Committee Hearing Thursday morning.

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris leads Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump by seven percentage points in New Mexico according to a recent poll. Meanwhile, support for independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is surprisingly high here.