Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Email * SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy noticeDonald Trump’s executive order altering the federal guidance for childhood vaccines has been blasted as “dangerous” by the American Academy of Pediatrics and criticized by a Republican senator. Despite Trump’s order, it is the states, not the federal government, that have the authority to require vaccinations for schoolchildren. This executive order is wrong. Parents should listen to their child’s pediatrician about vaccines rather than listening to an inaccurate executive order.