It's no different than the federal government injecting children with radioactive isotopes instead of flu vaccine at the county health clinics.
There was no popular vote agreeing to that, or to release a cloud of radioactive gas in Washington state I believe it was, just to track how far it would drift & how bad the contamination would be.
Not everything in this country is subject to a popular vote, even the presidential vote is diluted, if not downright negated by the electoral college.
How about shooting students at Kent State? Or the Branch Davidians in Waco? Or the use of federal troops against rioters in California? Posse comitatus was voted on & it gets walked on all the time.
The government shouldn't do a lot of the things it does, but they do it & we have to accept it or change it, unfortunately, changing it would require armed force; a pen & paper just ain't gonna do it.