The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just fired a ton of its employees—in the most chaotic way possible.

Susan Monarez, who held the job on an interim basis, would be the first nonphysician to lead the agency in more than 50 years Some experts support her, while others question her recent actions ...

She has served as acting director since January. If approved by the Senate, Monarez would become the first person without a medical degree to head the CDC in more than 50 years. She is an infectious ...

Trump abruptly withdrew the nomination of his first pick, David Weldon, earlier this month. Monarez has been serving as the CDC’s acting director since January and came from another federal agency, ...

A sign with the CDC logo is displayed at the entrance to the agency's headquarters in Atlanta, on Sunday, March 2, 2025. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will nominate Susan Monarez ...

President Donald Trump will nominate Susan Monarez, the acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a longtime federal staffer, to the permanent position, a White ...

It is in that vein I call out my friends at the FDA and CDC for closing a romaine lettuce E. coli O157:H7 case without supplying the public – who they are supposed to serve – with information ...

UPDATE (March 19, 2025, 5:11 p.m. ET): This post has been updated with additional details. In Donald Trump’s second term, his first humiliating personnel fiasco came early on: He chose former ...

“The president is a busy man doing good work for our nation, and the last thing he needs is a controversy about CDC.” A spokesperson for Cassidy denied that Cassidy asked the administration to ...

A former Florida congressman, Weldon also has been a prominent critic of vaccines and the CDC, which promotes vaccines and monitors their safety. Sen. Patty Murray said she had serious concerns ...

The Trump administration has withdrawn the nomination of former Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Fla., to serve as director of the Centers for Disease Control just before his Senate hearing was scheduled to begin.