Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stayed mum on a touchy topic during a dinner with the dad of an 8-year-old girl who died of measles, the man said.

“The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine,” Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, wrote at the end of a post memorializing Daisy, an 8-year-old girl who died from what the Texas Department of State Health Services described as measles pulmonary failure. The girl had no underlying conditions and was not vaccinated.

The HHS secretary posted more inconsistent measles messaging after attending the funeral of the second child to die in the Texas outbreak.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed health program cuts and the measles vaccine in his first network TV interview since joining the Trump administration.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he wasn’t aware of cuts to infectious disease and addiction research in a CBS interview that aired Wednesday morning. When asked about $11 billion in proposed cuts to local and state programs by the Trump administration,

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “not familiar” with the billions of dollars worth of cuts he proposed to make on essential health programs and departments. CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook asked the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday if he had personally approved the more than $11 billion proposed cuts to programs addressing mental health,