As usual, host Colbert tackled the day’s news in his opening monologue — but things took a turn into the unusual when Colbert responded to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement Tuesday that he’s canceling $500 million in funding for vaccine development.

Stephen Colbert is not impressed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has cut $500 million in funding for vaccines. On the latest episode of The Late Show, Colbert took aim at the Health and Human Services Secretary over the decision, which former Surgeon General Jerome Adams said “is going to cost lives.”

Stephen Colbert gave what he promised was a "measured, nonpartisan response" to the harrowing news on Wednesday that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pulled $500 million in funding for vaccines.