Less than a month after she was sworn in, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez has been fired, the White House announced.
White House spokesman Kush Desai, late on Wednesday, said Monarez was not “aligned with the President’s agenda of Making America Healthy Again.”
Since she had “refused to resign despite informing [Department of Health and Human Services] leadership of her intent to do so, the White House has terminated Monarez from her position with the CDC,” Desai said.
The HHS announced earlier on Wednesday that Monarez was no longer the director of CDC, adding that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “has full confidence in his team … who will continue to be vigilant in protecting Americans against infectious diseases at home and abroad.”…
White House Fires CDC Director
