Washington – Sen Bill Cassidi, a Louisiana Republican, who presided over the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pension, on Thursday called the Health and Human Services Department “indefinitely” its Vaccine Advisory Committee meeting to the meeting of its Vaccine Advisory Committee on the next month amid departure from disease control and prevention centers.
Cassidi said, “If the meeting goes ahead, any recommendations should be rejected, as it is a lack of validity in view of the severity of the allegations and the current turmoil under the CDC leadership.” statement,
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Trump administration is trying to set fire CDC director Susan MonarezA month after being confirmed by the Senate, although his lawyers have pushed back the validity of his removal.
Meanwhile, several other top CDC officials resigned on Wednesday, indicating disagreeing with the Trump administration on their vaccine policy, among other things.
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior said he would not comment on the issues of personnel in a presence on Fox News on Thursday, but claimed that “CDC had problems,” citing the Kovid -19 protocol between them.
Kennedy said, “We need to look at the priorities of the agency, if really deeply, deeply embedded, I would say, unhealthy in the agency.” “And we need strong leadership that will go there and it will be able to implement President Trump’s widespread ambitions.”
In June, Kennedy said that he was “was”Retiring“All 17 members of the Advisory Committee for vaccination practices, independent medical and public health experts who recommend and vote on the vaccine recommendations of CDC. Kennedy Replaced Committee members with their own pics.
To postpone the vaccine meeting, the call of Cassidi is the second called under the leadership of Kennedy – after that he did so june – And HHS represents a break with the secretary. In February, Kennedy Information about it The post came only after Cassidi gave significant votes to advance nomination out of the committee. Louisiana Republican, a medical doctor, had misunderstood Kennedy’s enrollment as he had suspected due to suspicion of vaccines for decades.
Cassidi eventually supported Kennedy’s nomination, citing “serious commitments”, he said he had received from the administration. He later said that Kennedy and the administration had agreed that he would talk with the secretary several times a month, and the pair would “be an unprecedentedly close associate work.”
In his statement on Thursday, Cassidi said the vaccine meeting “has been accused of following the agenda, membership, and lack of scientific process.”
“These decisions directly affect the health of children and the meeting should not be held until significant inspection is done,” said Louisiana Senator.
Cassidi said in a post on X after the news of the CDC departure on Wednesday that “High profile departure will require inspection by aid committee.”
Ranking member Burney Sanders on Thursday sent a letter to Cassidi, who was calling for a bilateral examination in Monarez firing. The Vermont Senator also urged the chairman to hear with Kennedy, Monarez and CDC leaders, who left the post.
Sanders said, “American people should listen directly from Secretary Kennedy and Dr. Monarez and each member of our committee should be able to ask questions and receive honest answers from them.”
The Senate Finance Committee announced the hearing with Secretary Kennedy on the health care agenda of President Trump next Thursday. According to a partner of a committee, the proceedings were in work before the previously dispute, who said that the panel does not have the jurisdiction of the CDC.
A handful of Congress Democrats have called for resignation of Kennedy or removing a large migration from the health agency.
“We cannot burn RFK Junior. CDC and our other important health agencies are left on the ground,” Sen Patty Murray of Washington said in a statement.
The White House defended the decision to abolish Kennedy and Monarez. White House Press Secretary Karolin Lewitt said that a replacement would be named by the President or HHS Secretary.
“The secretary asked her to resign – she said she would do it and then she did not, so the President fired her, which she has every right to do,” Levit told reporters. “If people are not aligned to make this country healthy again with the sight of the President and the view of the secretary, then we will happily show them the door.”