“We saw what happened with Susan,” Debra Houry, CDC’s former chief medical officer who resigned in protest of Kennedy’s political interference, told Stat News. “She couldn’t make staffing or policy decisions. What has changed? Kennedy hasn’t changed.”
“A disaster”
Reporting by The Washington Post noted that amid the search for a new CDC director, some well-qualified candidates sought promises of autonomy to be able to fire and hire staff and to keep science insulated from political influence. Those candidates were not selected, sources told the Post.
Trump announced Schwartz’s nomination in a social media post on Wednesday, calling her “a STAR,” and announced nominations for three other positions at
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