White House reportedly picks Kennedy deputy to replace fired CDC chief | Trump administration

The White House would have chosen a deputy for Robert F Kennedy Jr to serve as an acting chief of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a decision that occurs while Monarez lawyers say that it would not succeed at Donald Monarez is approaching.

The Washington Post reported Thursday, citing two people familiar with the decision, which the White House selected Jim O’Neill, currently deputy secretary of the Ministry of Health and Social Services. The decision would give Kennedy a CDC chief who will be on board his efforts to revise the federal federal vaccine policy, the post reported.

Monarez, a specialist in infectious diseases who was confirmed as CDC chief just a month ago, was dismissed on Wednesday, according to a HHS statement, which gave no reason for the departure.

However, the apparently ousted director refused to be deleted. Her lawyers say that even if the White House said she was “not aligned with the president’s agenda”, only the president himself can reject it.

“As a person appointed to the presidential election, the Senate confirmed that only the president himself can dismiss her,” said Monarez lawyer Mark Zaid, on Bluesky.

“For this reason, we reject the notification that Dr. Monarez has received as legally deficient and she remains as director of the CDC. We informed the White House Council of our post. ”

A Trump spokesperson Kush Desai said: “While the declaration of his lawyer clearly indicates, Susan Monarez is not aligned on the president’s agenda to make America again healthy. Since Susan Monarrez refused to resign despite his information from the HHS management of her intention to do so, the White House has dismissed Monarez from her position with the CDC. “

Meanwhile, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told journalists during her press briefing that a replacement of Monarerez would be announced “very soon”.

The decision to withdraw Monarez aroused new disorders within the CDC, with four of his other senior leaders who have condemned that they have condemned as political interference in their work, their budget cuts and the spread of disinformation within the framework of the Trump administration.

The CDC is ultimately supervised by Robert F Kennedy Jr, the Secretary of the United States of Health who is known to have founded an anti-vaccine group and, in its current role, has reduced the funding of medical research, abolished scientific advisers and has restricted the use of headdress vaccines for Americans on Wednesday.

“It was first of all independent consulting committees and career experts. Then it was the dismissal of experienced scientists. Now, secretary Kennedy and HHS have put the detour of public health for political health and by putting millions of American lives in danger,” the lawyers of Monarez said in a press release.

“When the director of the CDC, Susan Monarez, refused an incomparable Stamp, reckless directives and health experts dedicated to the fire, she chose to protect the public to serve a political program. For this, she was targeted.”

Monarez and Kennedy clashed on vaccine policy, while CDC leaders were angry and upset by the way the administration managed a deadly situation earlier this month when an armed man fired the agency’s head office in Atlanta, killing a police officer, according to the New York Times.

The four senior officials to resign from the CDC are Debra Houry, the chief doctor; Daniel Jernigan, Head of Vaccine Safety; Jennifer Layden, head of the public health data office; And Demeter Daskalakis, who directed the office, which issues vaccination recommendations.

On social networks, Bernie Sanders, an independent American senator who is a member of the classification of the health, education, labor and pensions committee, said that the attempt to fire Monarez was “scandalous” and demanded an audience.

“Vaccines save lives. Period,” said Sanders on X.