Two impressive GOP Senator Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy is expressing unbearable as the director of the Disease Control and Prevention Center as the director of the expulsion center of Susan Monarez, Junior, resigning four other high -ranked CDC officers.
The strongest pushback among Republicans on Capital Hill came from Sen Bill Cassidi (R-La.), Who was the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension (Help) Committee.
He called the Advisory Committee of the Department of Health and Human Services on vaccination practices indefinitely, on the 18 September meeting after Staff Shake-Up at CDC.
Cassidi said in a statement, “Serious allegations have been made about the agenda, membership and lack of scientific process of the meeting.”
Separately, Sen Susan Colins (R-Men) stated that she was “alert” and firing Monerez’s firing and confirming her Senate for less than a month to end the Congress call for Congress’s inspection on the decision to finish her for less than a month.
“Susan Monarez is a highly capable scientist who brought the treasure of experience for the agency. While I believe the CDC director acts in the happiness of the President, I am worried that he has been fired after only three weeks,” Collins said.
He said, “Last night I talked about his expulsion with former director Monarez. I agree with the chairman Bill Cassidi, who heads the CDC with jurisdiction of the Senate Committee, that the matter monitors the Congress,” he said.
Cassidi warned the panel recommendations that “would directly affect children’s health” and urge that “the meeting should not be done until significant inspection is done.”
“If the meeting goes on, any recommendation should be rejected as the severity of the allegations and lack of validity in view of the current turmoil under the CDC leadership,” he said.
It is not clear how far the casidi, colins or other GOP senters will go to challenge the tricks.
The overwhelming majority of GOP senators have repeatedly demanded to reduce big differences with President Trump and the most controversial members of his cabinet, knowing that any criticism of the President or his administration has met with a rebuke on the truth social, to keep the GOP MPs in line.
And both Cassidi and Colins are for reunion in 2026.
GOP sources predicted on Thursday that the Cassidi would be cautious in its perspective to the dispute as he faces John Fleming, a conservative primary challenger, Treasurer of Louisiana, ahead of the re -election race of 2026.
Cassidi wants Trump’s support and Trump’s 2021 Senate needs to be careful after being cautious after being one of the seven Republican Senators to vote for convicting Trump on charges of instigating the rebellion during the 2021 Senate trial.
Coalins, who voted to convict Trump in the impeachment test, is running for the renovation in the state for former Vice President Kamla Harris for the President in 2024. He keeps them in a different position compared to casidi.
The senators issued their statements after four senior CDC officials resigned from the agency following the firing of Monarez.
Four officers who resigned, Dr. CDC Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Debra was Humi; The agency’s top respiratory disease and vaccination officer Demetre Dasaklis; Dan Jargan, a senior officer who helped in the supervision of reactions to infectious diseases; And Genfier Ladon, who handled public health data.
Republican strategists warned that shakeup could underline concerns that Kennedy scientific is trying to turn a policy to fit a political story regardless of the reality.
A Republican Strategist and former Senate GOP colleague, who requested oblivion to clearly comment on the matter, said the shakeup in the agency in charge of the country’s health defense is proving to be a “epic” blunder.
“This is a major problem for CDC, for the country and for Kennedy’s credibility,” said the strategist. Referring to Kennedy’s efforts to re -write the country’s vaccine policies, “he talked that he only wants transparency and engaged in a conversation and he is clearly trying to cook points at this point.”
The source said, “It seems that he is planning to use very selected curates, relatively opaque studies, which is not telling any kind of general standard about the general standard of science about what is the cause of autism.”
Tom Freedan, who served as the CDC Director from 2009 to 2017 and is now the President and CEO to save life as a global health organization for a global health organization, asked Kennedy’s efforts to “attack” the efforts of Kennedy.
“This is unprecedented. We have never seen the firing of the director of CDC and the firing seems to be triggered by the CDC director that they will not put a rubber stamp on anything. [the Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices] Said, “Frieden told The Hill in an interview.
He said, “What we are seeing here is actually the use of ideology for our children to make life-death decisions. It is unprecedented and it is really dangerous,” he said. “I never thought I would see the day when we could not rely on the CDC website for fact-based information and transparency, what it got, what it was recommended and why.”
At the same time, the GOP strategist who used to talk to the hill said that any GOP resistance would go, although they predicted that Republican could hear hearing that gives Democrats a chance to be difficult with Kennedy.
The strategist stated that Republican can thread the needle by creating a serious concern on Kennedy’s controversial moves “without fighting the needle on a main piece of his healthcare agenda with Trump.
The GOP source said that one way to do this is “there should be a public hearing, where Kennedy has to come and explain himself and has its science in public and let the world look and let it separate.”
Kennedy told Fox News on “Fox and Friends” on Thursday that CDC led “Trump’s agenda needs to be executed” and said that the agency is “in trouble” and “needs to be fixed. ,
“CDC has problems. We saw wrong information coming out of Kovid, they got the test wrong, they were social disturbances, masks, schools closed, who have caused so much damage to American people today,” he said.
White House press secretary Karolin Levit later defended Trump’s decision to set Monarez on Thursday and the President would nominate a new person to lead a “very soon” agency.
Levit stated that Trump “had re -joined heavily on 5 November” and “This woman, referring to Monarez, has never got votes in her life.”
“The President has the right to set fire to those who do not align with their mission,” she said.
On Thursday evening, the administration said that Jim O’Neill, Secretary, Deputy Health and Human Services (HHS), was selected to serve as the acting CDC director.
Daskalis, who led the Center to release the recommendations of the vaccines,, in the Department of Health and Human Services, “accused the CDC of treating the CDC as a tool for generating policies and materials that do not reflect the scientific reality.”
The former Senior Health Officer criticized Kennedy’s decision to set fire to all 17 members of the agency panel on vaccination practices and replaced them with those with their agenda.
In his resignation letter, which he posted on social media, Dasaklis stated that the restructured panel puts a director Hamstrang suspected intentions and more suspected scientific rigor to recommend the vaccine policy to Hamstrang and bypassed a powerful leader. “
“Their desire to please a political base resulted in the death and disability of weak children and adults,” he warned.
