The democratic chairman of the Senate, Chuck Schumer (NY) About the fall By Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Susan Monarez and several Top -class resignation.
The termination of Monarez and the resignation of other high -ranking civil servants have triggered A Maelstrom of controversy And a protest against hundreds of people outside the CDC campus of Atlanta on Thursday.
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The Senate confirmed Kennedy in February at a party line, with the Republican Senator Mitch McConnell (Ky.) And all Democrats against him.
“RFK Jr.’s stubborn, pief zone and conspiracy base attacks on proven science will make many more people sick and cause more deaths. The Americans are in greater risk every day that Robert Kennedy will remain as a HHS secretary,” said Schumer.
“By being responsible for HHS, Trump is responsible for HHS, he doubles his own failure. President Trump has to admit his mistake and remove Kennedy now,” he added.
Schumer accused Kennedy last month that he has not responded appropriately to the worst measles outbreak of the nation for 33 years.
“Under their lessons as a secretary, they undermined vaccines, exchanged the financing of public health and dismantled the core of the federal government that protects the Americans,” he wrote in a letter dated July 11 to Kennedy.
Kennedy’s decision this week to relieve Monarez what the The white house has securedAfter Kennedy and Monarez fought for the abolition of the permits for COVID-19 vaccinations.
It triggered the resignation of several other high -ranking civil servants, including Demetre Daskalaki, director of the National Center for Immunization and respiratory diseases. Daniel Jernigan, director of the National Center for Aufwärting and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; and Debra Houry, the Chief Medical Officer.
The lawyers of Monarez accused Kennedy of having released her because she refused to “stamp unscientific, ruthless guideline and fire brigade of health experts”.
Kennedy defended his decision during an interview about Fox and Fox News.
“The agency is in difficulties and we have to fix it and we repair them. And it may not be that some people should no longer work there,” he said.
