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“Unwilling to talk to you”

“None of STAT’s FOIA requests have been completed, and some haven’t been acknowledged—despite HHS policy requiring a response with tracking and contact information within 10 days of submitting a request,” the journalists wrote. “That includes three STAT inquiries from September 2025. The web page previously used to track requests has been taken down.”

The outlet noted that it’s not just journalists who are not able to get information from HHS; requests from citizens and lawmakers have also gone unanswered, though a leader of Kennedy’s anti-vaccine group, Children’s Health Defense, reportedly is getting his FOIA requests fulfilled, Stat noted.

Ars Technica has reached out to the HHS press office for comment as well as a link to the publicly available calendar. There was no immediate response. Stat reported that HHS did not respond to their comment requests in light of Kennedy’s post.

That Kennedy seems to...

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