The director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) remains in a heated standoff with the Trump administration after the White House announced she had been fired.
Susan Monarez - who has only been in the job for a month - refused “to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives” and accused Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr of “weaponising public health”, according to her lawyers.
Her lawyer insisted Dr Monarez’s sacking was not legal and only President Donald Trump - not White House officials - could remove her.
The reason for her removal was that she was “not aligned with the president’s agenda”, the White House said in a statement.
At least three senior CDC leaders resigned from the agency, some citing frustration over vaccine policy and the leadership of Kennedy, also known as RFK Jr.
Among them was Chief Medical Officer Debra Houry, who warned about the “rise of misinformation” about vaccines in a letter seen by the BBC’s US partner CBS News. She also argued against planned cuts to the agency’s budget.
So…. Does the US just not have a Surgeon General any more? What happened to that position?
funilly enough the current SG looks like not a fuck up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Hinton
If she isn’t using vocally pushing back against having her platform usurped by the roadkill guy, she’s an absolute fuck up.
I have to assume this is the Surgeon General right now:
So, as cowardly as every other American?
movement based on vision you uncultured ape.
Her lawyer insisted Dr Monarez’s sacking was not legal and only President Donald Trump - not White House officials - could remove her.
If they only have to get Trump to sign off, it doesn’t sound like much help.
Trump may throw a shit fit because some stole his power by firing her. He’s a petty petty man and may just keep her because of that.
It’s not, but there’s no reason not to make him actually do it. I think the Cheeto actually doesn’t like to deliver the “you’re fired!” line to people for real and not in a TV show.
He didn’t do it in the TV show either. He recorded the line without the contestant in the room.
Because he is a big spineless baby.
I expect that every day they bring him a stack of papers to sign, so it would just be one of them, and he’ll nod at it and sign.
Nah, he’d use an autopen
Christ what a shitshow.
What the hell did Monarez expect? If one says “NO” in that fucked up Orange Circus, you’re gone.
Can we just hurry this up so I can buy some nice land in North Carolina before the Canadian dollar collapses too?
This is like old news, Trump already fired her.
Funny you claim it’s old news, since the article is only a few hours old.
But since she’s only been on the post for a month, it may be you have her confused with the previous director.
Either that or you are confused by “The Whit House” <> Trump.This article is 2 hours old. She’s arguing “the White House” can’t fire her (what you are probably thinking of), only Trump.
And I’m telling you Trump already fired her and installed a interim director.
He has not. The whitehouse said she was fired, but that’s not what the law says. The president has to directly fire her, himself.
They did assign an interim director, but he still hasent directly fired her, so shes still the director.
That’s just what I was wondering. Thanks.
