President Donald Trump will nominate Dr. Susan Monarez, the acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to the job, a White House official confirmed Monday.
Trump abruptly withdrew the nomination of his first pick, David Weldon, earlier this month.
Monarez has been serving as the CDC�s acting director since January. She came from an outside federal government agency, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health.
Earlier this month, the White House withdrew the nomination of Weldon, a former Florida congressman, to lead the CDC. Weldon told the media his nomination was withdrawn because �there were not enough votes to get me confirmed.�
Weldon was closely aligned with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. health secretary who for years has been one of the nation�s leading anti-vaccine activists.
The CDC is based in Atlanta and has a $9.2 billion core budget. It was created nearly 80 years ago to prevent the spread of malaria in the U.S. Its mission was later expanded, and it gradually became a global leader on infectious and chronic diseases and a go-to source of health information.
(AP)
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Weldon would have done us better with a more truthful perspective on the dangers, both physiological–and financial, concerning vaccine theory and its monstrous shadow influencer: the pharmaceutical industry. Perhaps RFK, Jr will be an influence on her, presumably she has enough votes from the vaccine-industry bureaucrats to get confirmed which would be difficult for Weldon, a true vaccine freedom hero, to have accomplished in the current MSM-influenced health mindset of this country.