Trump news at a glance: CDC chief was fired for resisting vaccine changes that ‘flew in the face of science’ | Trump administration
CDC director Susan Monarez was dismissed after having resisted changes in the vaccine policy that was advanced by the Secretary of Health, Robert F Kennedy Jr, and she believed to be a contradiction of scientific evidence, according to a former interim director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Richard Besser said that Monarez told her that there were “two things that she would never do in work. One was all that was deemed illegal, and the second was all she felt against science – and she said that she had been asked to make them both. ”
The other CDC employees applauded the three outgoing officials who resigned after the dismissal of Monarez while they left the Atlanta campus on Thursday, in a demonstration of contempt towards Kennedy and his non -scientific assertions concerning vaccines.
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CDC officials who have resigned to demonstrate the call for the call to “get out of public health policy”
The Senior CDC research and public health leaders who resigned who resigned told hundreds of supporters on the other side of the rue du Campus on Thursday that the Trump administration was to “bring out public health policy”.
The agency is under the shock of the dismissal of the CDC chief, Susan Monarez. Monarez, who was confirmed as his head just a month ago and refused to be kidnapped. Four senior leaders – Debra Houry, Demeter Daskalakis, Daniel Jernigan and Jennifer Layden – then resigned to protest, citing the alleged distribution of disinformation under the Trump administration and political interference in their work.
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The White House would have chosen the deputy for Kennedy to replace the licensed CDC chief
The Trump administration would have chosen a deputy for Robert F Kennedy Jr to serve as an actor of the CDC.
The Associated Press and the Washington Post reported Thursday, citing familiar sources with the decision, which the White House had 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.
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Trump serious to continue a third term, Gavin Newsom warns
The president is seriously serious about the candidacy for a third term in violation of the American Constitution, said Californian governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday, warning the Americans to “wake up” to what he described as the flagrant contempt of Trump for democratic standards.
“I do not think that Donald Trump wants another election,” said Newsom, a democrat, during a live interview at a summit organized by Politico in Sacramento. “This guy does not believe in free and fair elections.”
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The White House seeks to use the military base of the Chicago region for the repression of immigration
The White House asked an American military base on the outskirts of Chicago helping immigration operations while the Trump administration provides for a wider takeover of the “sanctuary cities” managed by the Democrats.
On Thursday, the big lakes of the naval station confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had contributed to the help, telling the Associated Press that the DHS had asked for “limited support in the form of installations, infrastructure and other logistical needs to take care of the DHS operations”.
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US Air Force to grant military honors to a fatally injured rioter on January 6
The Air Force will offer military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the rioter deadly killed during the attack on the Capitol on January 6, marking another stage in the aggressive rehabilitation of Donald Trump.
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Governor nourished Lisa Cook continues Trump for an “illegal attempt” to dismiss her
The governor of the federal reserve, Lisa Cook, filed a complaint against the American president for “an unprecedented and illegal attempt” to dismiss her, calling him an effort to undermine the independence of the Central Bank.
The trial – tabled by Cook before the Washington Federal Court on Thursday – opens the way to a legal battle on Trump’s extraordinary thrust for greater control by the Central Bank.
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