Trump administration faces rare bipartisan prosecution of CDC directors | Trump administration

this Trump administration Amid the turmoil at the top infectious disease agencies in the United States, facing a rare bipartisan counterattack to fire the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (CDC), prompting dozens of employees to leave their headquarters in protest.

The White House says Susan MonarezJust a month ago, she was identified as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because she “difference to the president’s agenda” and only Monares refused to leave. As a Senate confirmed appointment, the official’s lawyer said Donald Trump He could remove her by himself.

Monares was reportedly fired Robert F Kennedy JrThe U.S. Secretary of Health refused to remove him and promised to limit verified vaccines.

Kennedy previously established an anti-vaccine organization that has long been spreading misinformation about immunization, with new restrictions this week on who can get access to common vaccines.

This position, along with concerns about budget cuts and political interference in the CDC’s work, prompted the resignation of four top institutional leaders. Dozens of CDC staff left their Atlanta headquarters on Thursday to support Monares and other late leaders.

CDC’s extreme unrest has sparked a bipartisan alarm in Congress, winning Trump administration It is usually a rare condemnation by loyal Republicans who are slavery.

“She’s been working for three weeks and I’m very concerned and shocked by this kind of removal,” said Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican of Maine, of Monares. Collins said there was no “no basis” to remove the CDC director.

Another Republican Senator, Bill Cassidy, chaired the Senate Health Committee, said the upcoming meeting of the Department of Health and Human Services committee recommends the use of vaccines, which should be postponed due to attacks on the CDC.

“If the proceeds of the meeting are drawn, given the severity of the allegations and the turmoil in the current CDC leadership, any advice should be rejected because of the lack of legitimacy,” Cassidy said.

Independent Senator Bernie Sanders said all politically convinced should be shocked by restricting the chances of getting vaccinated, which he called “one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century.”

“We witnessed a total war on science, public health and the truth itself,” Sanders said. “In just six months, Secretary Kennedy removed the vaccine review process, narrowing the opportunity for a shared vaccine that saves lives and filling the scientific advisory committee with conspiracy theorists and ideologies.”

However, the Trump administration shows no sign of support. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized a departing CDC official for using the term “pregnant woman” in his resignation letter at a press conference Thursday.

“I know there are other people who resigned after Ms. Monares fired,” she said. “One of them wrote in a statement on departure that he identified the pregnant woman as a pregnant woman, so anyway, it’s not the person we want in this government.”

The official, Demetre Daskalakis, served as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC on Wednesday, accusing the agency of “generating policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality, rather than aiming to create scientific reality, rather than to harm rather than improve public health.”

Daskalakis responded to Leavitt’s speech in an interview with CNN. “I find this administration trying to eliminate trans people, which is outrageous,” he said.

“I used the word pregnant woman very specifically and added my pronoun very specifically to the end of my resignation letter to show that I violated this horrible strategy in an attempt to eliminate people without allowing them to express their identities.

“So, I accept the notes of the press secretary and object to it: I don’t care.”