Kennedy Urging Congress To Vote "No" On The American Broadband Deployment Act of 2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. via his Make America Healthy Again movement is urging Congress to vote "No" on HR 2289. The reason for his opposition to the American Broadband Deployment Act of 2025 is because as it is currently written, it would allow telecommunications corporations "to place cell towers, small cells, and antennas wherever they please, with no ability for local government to deny them." As the MAHA movement explains it, HR 2289 uses "deregulation rhetoric to eliminate environmental transparency and community health protections while benefiting telecommunications corporations." This bill, if passed in its current form, poses potential health issues with few recourses for residents across the country. For studies do show that "people with higher levels of radiofrequency radiation in their homes from nearby mobile phone base stations (including cell towers, cellular antennas, and 5G small cells) reported more health issues compared to those living further away and with less in-home exposure."

Some of the side effects that people report who live close to cell towers and the like include memory problems, inflammatory issues, joint and nerve pain. Those living close to cell towers and their ilk who are under the age of forty tend to report more headaches, allergies, chest pains, and increased infections than older residents. Some studies show that reduced sperm quality, increased sperm damage, and reduced birth weight result from proximity to cell tower radiation. With brain cancers and nerve sheath tumors caused by the proximity to cell towers also being reported by some studies. Other effects on the brain resulting from cell tower radiation include oxidative stress and decreased cognitive function. With some studies also reporting damage to one's DNA due to the frequency emitted by cell towers. The negative health effects resulting from even low-level radiofrequency radiation from cell towers have become so common they are referred to in the vernacular as "microwave sickness".

Even in the insect world, the side effects of cell tower radiation are manifested. As studies show, bees absorb the 5G frequencies from cell towers which in turn leads to colony collapse disorder. A situation in which the majority of the worker bees in a colony abandon the hive, leaving behind the queen bee, some food stores, and a few of the nurse bees to care for what is left of an immature brood. This quick disappearance of the adult bees from a hive peaked from 2006 through 2008, but has declined some since then as awareness of the importance of bees has increased. For it is estimated that bees act as the primary pollinators for a third of the world's food production. Specifically, where fruits, vegetables, and nuts are concerned.

In a nation founded upon the principals of individual liberties, HR 2289 has the potential to eliminate individual liberties and allow for federal encroachment in the name of "big tech". For it would strip, "parents, cities, and school boards of any meaningful authority to decide where cell towers and wireless antennas are placed – including on utility poles, light poles, schools, and residential streets." Given that the long-term health effects of electromagnetic radiation exposure on children in the places they frequent such as schools, playgrounds, and sports fields have not been fully researched and analyzed, the MAHA movement maintains that "communities must retain the right to apply caution near schools and children's outdoor spaces". Therefore, the MAHA movement is encouraging concerned citizens to e-mail their lawmakers to show their opposition to HR 2289, today.

Those who wish to express their opposition to such a potentially health problem inducing bill can do so at the following link: https://www.mahaaction.org/legislative-tracker/bills/us/119/hr2289?utm_source=mahaaction.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=save-local-autonomy-congress-must-vote-no-on-hr-2289&_bhlid=53c69c435b0d96e72473adb9cbd21ddabd1963d3Tracker

Luisa Reyes is a Tuscaloosa Attorney, piano instructor, vocalist, poet, reporter, and columnist who writes on current events, politics, and the arts.