Susan Monarez, a nominated person nominated by President Donald Trump, as Director of Disease Control and Prevention Center (CDC), testifies to hear his confirmation before the Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pension on 25 June 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Lawyer for Disease Control and Prevention Director Centers Susan Monarez Late Wednesday said that she remains in the role because only the President Donald Trump Can set him on fire.
In a post on X, the lawyers said that the employees of the White House at the Personnel Office on Wednesday informed Monarez for their firing. But the lawyers said that Monarez is the appointment of a president, so only Trump can exclude him.
“For this reason, we reject the notification Dr. Monarez has received legally shortage and remains as CDC Director,” Attorney Mark Zaid said in the post, “We have informed the White House counsel for our position.”
It is the latest in a leadership turmoil in CDC. A few hours after the statement came white House Said that he had fired Monarez after refusing to resign.
In the first statement, Zaid said that Monarez refused to “firing rubber-stamp unscientific, careless instructions and dedicated health experts” and “he chose to protect the public to serve a political agenda.”
“For that, he is targeted,” he said.
Monarez and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior Vaccine was on obstacles on policy, the new York Times Reported on Wednesday citing an unnamed administration officer.
Kennedy, a major vaccine skeptical, has taken several steps to replace Immune policy In America
Monarez, there were scientists of the federal government for a long time Powered on 31 JulyShe is the first CDC director to confirm a new law passed during the epidemic confirmed by the Senate, which requires MPs to approve nominees for the role.
At least four other top health officials announced on Wednesday that they were said by the Department of Health and Human Services that Monarez had called the CDC Director “Now” in a post on X.
In an interview on Fox News on Thursday, Kennedy refused to comment on “personnel issues”. But he said that the agency “is in trouble, and we need to fix it, and we are fixing it, and it may be that some people should not work there.”
He said that Trump has “very ambitious expectations for CDC right now”. But Kennedy stated that the CDC had “problems,” claiming that the agency took the “wrong” approach when it was social dispensing, masking and school closed during the Kovid epidemic.
Kennedy said, “If a deeper, depth embedded … is unhealthy in the agency, and we need a strong leadership that will go there and it will be able to execute the widespread ambitions of President Trump for this agency, then Gold Standard Science and when we were growing up, who was this, who was this,” Kennedy said. “We are going to be the most respected health agency in the world.”
The leadership departure comes at a time for the agency, which is again again Gun attack on his Atlanta headquarters On 8 August. A police officer died in the shooting.
– CNBC’s Angelica Pables contributed to this report.
