“Susan Monarez, the newly installed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is being ousted weeks after she was confirmed to lead the public health agency,” the Washington Post reports.
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“At least three top officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention submitted their resignations Wednesday, saying the recent changes and leadership at their agency are preventing them from fulfilling their duties as public health authorities,” The Hill reports.
Washington Post: Top officials resign after RFK Jr. push to change vaccine policy.
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“The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is refusing to leave her post, despite demands from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that she quit or be fired,” the New York Times reports.
“The clash between Mr. Kennedy and Susan Monarez, who was sworn in as CDC director just one month ago, burst into public view on Wednesday as four other high-ranking CDC officials quit en masse, apparently in frustration over vaccine policy and Mr. Kennedy’s leadership.”
Unfortunately a lot of people are going to get sick and likely even die because of this damn idiot.
What’s sadly amusing is that almost the entire Kennedy family has repudiated this damn fool but he has become something of a hero to MAGA.
Now if he can just get that fluoride out of the water!That seems to be driving those damn kooks crazy!Where is the John Birch Society??
And what is all this about Covid shots ?Not available for everyone?What about uh “ freedom.?”Where is the House “:Freedom “ caucus ??
What a pitiful damn joke this country has become!
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
No clean air, here or abroad.
No inoculations or insulations.
No trustworthy economic statistics.
No scientific research to know how pure is the air and water, or how effective public-health measures are.
Trump Chaos Protocol….
Chaos Engulfs CDC Headquarters
“The nation’s top public health agency was left reeling and leaderless as the White House works to expel its handpicked director from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and three senior officials were escorted from its headquarters on Thursday,” the AP reports.
“The turmoil triggered rare bipartisan alarm as President Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., tries to advance anti-vaccine policies that are contradicted by decades of scientific research.”
“The chaos comes weeks before a key advisory committee, which Kennedy has reshaped with vaccine skeptics, is expected to meet to issue new recommendations on immunizations.”
The Guardian: CDC officials who quit in protest lead call to “get politics out of public health.”
Axios: How RFK Jr. could exploit the CDC’s power vacuum.
GOP senators express unease over RFK Jr.’s CDC shake-up
Two influential GOP senators are expressing unease over Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s firing of Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which led to the resignations of four other high-ranking CDC officials.
The strongest pushback among Republicans on Capitol Hill came Thursday from Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
He called on the department’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to indefinitely postpone a Sept. 18 meeting in the aftermath of the staff shake-up at CDC.
“Serious allegations have been made about the meeting agenda, membership, and lack of scientific process being followed for the now announced September ACIP meeting,” Cassidy said in a statement.
Separately, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she was “alarmed” by Monarez’s firing and echoed Cassidy’s call for congressional oversight over the decision to terminate her less than a month after her Senate confirmation…..
GOP Health chair Bill Cassidy vows Senate oversight after CDC shake-up
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, says the departures of several high-level officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including Director Susan Monarez, “will require oversight.”
Cassidy, who cast a pivotal vote to confirm Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in February, supported Kennedy’s controversial nomination after receiving his assurance that he would not dismantle the nation’s vaccine safety systems.
The Louisiana Republican posted his statement pledging oversight of the shake-up at CDC on social platform X.
Now, Monarez and several other senior officials at CDC are set to leave their posts after a battle with Kennedy over the administration’s vaccine policies.
The White House announced Wednesday that Monarez had been terminated because she is “not aligned with the president’s agenda of Making America Healthy Again.”….
Is RFK Jr. getting in trouble with GOPer’s in Congress?
Collins ‘alarmed’ by Trump firing CDC head
GOP Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) on Thursday said she was “alarmed” by the firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Susan Monarez as ordered by the Trump administration.
Monarez was originally asked to resign but ultimately chose to hold firm to the post until the White House informed her of the removal….
President Donald Trump promised to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on health. He’s following through.
After the health secretary said Wednesday that he wanted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez gone less than a month after the Senate confirmed her, Monarez said she needed to hear it directly from the president.
A few hours later, a White House staffer in the personnel office told her she was terminated.
The move prompted dismay from both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill as well as the public health establishment, but it was just the latest instance in which Trump has had Kennedy’s back when he makes controversial decisions….
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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La) is a medical doctor.
First, do no harm.
Will he get a call from Trump?
Doubtful
Cassidy voted to convict Trump for inciting an insurrection in his impeachment trial.
Good…..
One wonders IF there COULD be a ‘brake’ on the RFK Jr. trying to tear up shit….
REPEATING YOUR Truth…
Donald J. Trump went out and HIRED Fuck Up’s to
FUCK UP Things….
The criminal President campaigned AGAINST Experts and Government….
He IS forfilling his ‘Destiny’….
He’s gonna get away with as much as he can….
Newsom IS gonna have a LOT to clean up come 2029…..
So you’re already sure Newsome is going to be the Democratic nominee in 2028?
Sure……
I KNOW ur gonna ride me on this…..
It’s ok…..
The California Governor deserves the accolades RIGHT NOW….
Other guys are invisible…..
Inane