Former Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Susan Monarez is set to testify before the Senate panel next Wednesday, September 19, on the recent high-profile departure from the agency.
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension (Help) Committee Chairman Sen Bill Cassidi (R-La.) On Tuesday announced that the committee has “hearing” distributing President Trump’s mission to restore radical transparency in CDC. It is important to protect American children. “
“Children’s health should be the top priority. I thank President Trump and Secretary Kennedy for prioritizing radical transparency,” Cassidi Said in a statement On Tuesday. “To protect children’s health, Americans need to know what happened in the CDC and what is happening. They need to be assured that their child’s health has been given priority. Radical transparency is the only way to do so.”
Monarez was excluded as CDC Director at the end of AugustOnly after a few weeks on the job. Asthe new York TimesKennedy asked Monarez to resign or remove more than stress around the vaccine policy.
Debra Humi, former Chief Medical Officer of CDC, who resigned last month, will also testify at the hearing. Humi told the Associated Press in August that his resignation was inspired by the Trump administration’s decision to exclude Monarez, describing it as the last straw.
Humi said at that time that three other CDC officials resigned in late August, Robert F., Secretary, Health and Human Services (HHS). This was done after Kennedy Junior.
According to the help of the help, the committee is also planning to invite officers at HHS to respond to the future hearing.
The hearing will come after two weeks when Kennedy defended his tenure as the country’s top health officer during a controversial Senate hearing, returning to MPs, who recently pressed him over the upheaval in CDC and changed the vaccine policy.
During the hearing, Cassidy, a doctor, Cut down with kennedy More than the conflict of mRNA vaccines and interests among the hand -packed panels of the vaccine advisors.
Cassidi was reluctant to support Kennedy’s confirmation, but eventually cast a decisive vote for his nomination to get out of the committee after receiving assurances about the vaccine policy. His fiery exchange at the hearing marked the strongest pushback and the most controversial public exchange between the two since the commencement of Kennedy’s tenure.
