CDC Massacre Came After Unprecedented New Limits on the Covid Vax

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Trump’s white house clown show

For a guy whose political career is largely based on reality TV in a liner “You are dismissed”, President Trump certainly had difficulty dismissing the director of the CDC Susan Monarez.

What may have confused the White House, beyond its own nonsense is that Monarez is the first Confirmed by the Senate Director of the CDC Ever, following a new post-pandemic law. It is used for the pleasure of the president, and not of the secretary of HHS, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is her boss, but who has less power over her than if she was named ordinary political.

Kennedy asked Monarez’s resignation and she refused, according to reports. He tried to dismiss her, and his lawyers said no, sorry, the president must dismiss her. The White House then announced that she had dismissed her, and her lawyers said Nope again, sorry, you are not the president.

Suppose that the White House has already or will today make a civil servant today confirmed by the Senate who refuses to resign must be dismissed by the president himself. He perhaps stumbles over him in the precise process, but Monarez left.

Four other senior CDC officials resigned to protest against the same RFK madness, Jr. Anti-Vax and Pseudoscience who caused Monarez revolt:

• Doctor DebraThe chief doctor
• Doctor Demeter daskalakisDirector of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases;
• Doctor Daniel JerniganThe director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; And
• Doctor Jen LaydenDirector of the Office of Public Health, Surveillance and Technology

It is a devastating loss of institutional capacity and years of non -partisan service to advance public health.

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Dr Demetre Daskalakis, Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, in his letter of resignation:

The intentional eroding of confidence in low -risk vaccines favoring natural infection and unproven remedies will bring us to an era before the vaccine where only the strong will survive and many otherwise all will suffer. I believe in nutrition and exercise. I believe that we must make our food supply healthier, and I also believe in the use of vaccines to prevent death and disability. Eugenics plays in good place in the rhetoric generated and is derived from a heritage that good medicine and science should continue to avoid.

The recent filming on CDC is not the reason why I resign. My grandfather, whom I am named after, resisted the fascist forces in Greece and lost my life by doing this. I resign to return him and his inheritance proud. I resign because of the cowardice of a leader who cannot admit that his words and servants over the decades have created an environment where violence like this can occur. I reject the thoughts and prayers of his colleagues and colleagues, and I advise to direct them to the people they did not actively injure.

Important: RFK Jr. restricts access to Covid Vax

The CDC staff debacle seems to be a direct result of Kennedy’s announcement (via X!) Of the FDA decision to restrict access to the annual vaccine coating to certain eligible beneficiaries, to bypass the normal process of vaccine approvals, to ignore established science and to replace the opposition of the public health community.

If it is true that, on the front, Kennedy’s announcement suggests that there can be many easy bypass solutions to obtain the vaccine covers despite the new restrictions, the limits represent precisely the scenario that its criticisms and the public health sector have warned for months. Long-standing experts in the reputation of the Sterling book and membership of scientific details and public policies have been sidelined in favor of the bombing of Kennedy in Kennedy, his anti-Vax prejudices and the crowd of grifters, quacks and charlatans, which he attracts and pupils.

Under Kennedy, Science has taken the rear seat for conspirators, opportunists and snake oil sellers. The result is now a national limitation of access to a vital vaccine that has saved countless lives in the past five years.

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The Republicans of the Senate still snubbed by Trump

I cannot immediately think of a recent precedent for the managers confirmed by the Senate to be dismissed as quickly as President Trump kept the commissioner of the IRS Billy Long and the Susan Monarez of the CDC. They only lasted a few weeks after following the confirmation process of the Senate with high intensity of resources.

The verification, the checks of the history, the interviews with individual senators, the time and resources of the committee staff, the hearings themselves: it is a formal constitutional process which, even in the current degraded state of the Senate controlled by the GOP, always requires an investment and a commitment of the senators.

Not only that, but the transactions are concluded, the housing manufactured and the horses exchanged to align the votes and obtain appointments via the Senate. All this is exploded if the president is Nilly who draws his people appointed by the Senate in a few weeks following their final approval by the senators.

On the Backend is the prospect of another series of confirmation audiences for the next candidate or in a more disturbing manner a series of intervals, actors and double pussy appointments to completely bypass the Senate. Even if you are a republican senator captured by Trump reluctant to speak or do anything, this model must give you a break.

Lisa Cook Trump’s dismissal of the Fed is not easy to reverse

Another gentle warning than the pretextual dismissal of Lisa Cook as a member of the Federal Reserve Board – while a blatant threat to the rule of law and the economy – can very well be held:

• Professor of law at the University of Columbia Lev Menand: “The White House has good reasons to think, on the basis of WilcoxThat the court will not be stored on the side of Ms. Cook, at least during the duration of the dispute, and perhaps also depending on the full examination. »»
• Georgetown law professor Marty Lederman: “[I]f the Supreme Court finally has rules for Trump on the non -constitutional Questions … in a way that allows him to withdraw Cook, it would be, in fact, the end of statistically guaranteed independence of the federal reserve, because it would not be difficult for any president to articulate a “cause” for the withdrawal of an Fed governor who does not vote to regulate interest rates in agreement with the president’s preferences. »»
• Adam Liptak of the NYT: “By removing the leaders of other independent agencies, Trump gave no reason, claiming that he had the unilateral constitutional authority to control the executive branch, even in the face of the efforts of the Congress to protect civil servants from political interference. But with the Fed, Mr. Trump tried something new. This time, he explained in a letter to Ms. Cook on Monday, there was a “sufficient cause” to remove it. »»

The USAF approves giving Ashli ​​Babbitt a military funeral

In a reversal of an administration decision of Biden, the Air Force will grant military funeral honors in Ashli ​​Babbitt, the riot of January 6 fired and killed in the Capitol. Under-Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Lohmeier informed the Babbitt family of the decision in a letter of August 15, which was shared by the judicial watch of the right group and reported by the hill.

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