During a high-stakes Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared that his department has pinpointed “certain interventions” that are almost certainly causing autism in children — with a full public announcement coming in September.
President Trump pressed the issue head-on during the meeting, calling the autism crisis “a tremendous horror show” devastating American families.
Trump:
Bobby, autism is such a tremendous horror show, what’s happening in our country and some other countries, but mostly our country. How are you doing on that?RFK Jr:
We are doing very well. We will have announcements as promised in September. We’re finding certain interventions now that are clearly, almost certainly, causing autism. We’re going to be able to address those in September.
Kennedy stunned the room with the numbers. In 1970, he said, a massive Wisconsin study of 900,000 children found an autism rate of less than one in 10,000. Today, official numbers put autism at 1 in 31 children nationwide. But the real picture may be far worse.
California, with its detailed reporting system, shows one in 19 children diagnosed and an astonishing one in 12.5 boys.
RFK Jr:
In 1970, the biggest epidemiological study in history was done in Wisconsin. They looked at 900,000 children, and they were looking for autism. They knew what it looked like, and they were very, very precise about it. They found an incidence rate of 0.7—in other words, less than one for every 10,000 children.Today, our most recent numbers are one in every 31 kids. It’s probably actually much worse than that because California, which has the best collection system, is reporting one out of every 19 children—American children—as autistic. One in every 12.5 boys. It’s gone from less than one in 10,000 in 1970 to one in 12.5 boys.
Trump, visibly disturbed, hinted that the administration may already be zeroing in on the cause.
Trump:
It’s not even believable that that could be. And that was one in 10,000 not so long ago. I’ve been hearing these numbers, and they get worse and worse every year. There’s got to be something.I think there’s nothing—including favored nations and everything else—there’s nothing that can be… If you can find out the reason that that’s happening, and I know we’re going to do some things. I think we maybe know the reason, and I look forward to that press conference—to be with you on that press conference. That’s going to be a great thing.
WATCH:
RFK JR: “We’re finding certain interventions now that are almost certainly causing autism, and we’re going to be able to address those in September.”
TRUMP: “There has to be something artificially causing this, meaning a drug or something … I think we maybe know the reason.” pic.twitter.com/CSMPbH9Uuz
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) August 26, 2025
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