Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) on Thursday stated the firing and resignations of prime leaders on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) is additional proof of the “grave error” made in confirming Robert F. Kennedy to helm the Division of Well being and Human Providers (HHS).
HHS introduced that CDC Director Susan Monarez — confirmed simply final month — would now not be working on the company. However attorneys representing her pushed again on the announcement, saying she had not resigned or obtained discover of termination.
4 senior leaders on the CDC submitted their resignations in response, citing their sturdy disagreement with modifications being made to the company and with the present management.
“Yesterday’s occasions are but extra proof that placing a quack like Bobby Kennedy accountable for public well being was a grave error,” Ossoff said in a statement “The Trump Administration has been engaged for months in a marketing campaign to destroy the CDC, America’s preeminent disease-fighting company.”
“The Administration’s extremism and incompetence are placing lives in danger,” he added.
These departures come simply weeks after a gunman shot a whole bunch of rounds into the CDC’s Atlanta’s headquarters in Ossoff’s residence state. The capturing killed one police officer on the campus.
The Georgia Democrat additionally spoke out strongly towards confirming Kennedy throughout his nomination.
“It’s truly astounding that the Senate stands on the brink of confirming Mr. Kennedy to lead America’s public health agencies,” he stated in February. “And if the senate weren’t gripped in this soon-to-be infamous period of total capitulation, I don’t think this nominee would have made it as far as a hearing.”
The senator continued, “Mr. Kennedy compared the CDC’s work to Nazi death camps. These aren’t comments I take lightly, given my ancestors were exterminated in Nazi death camps and the folks who work at the CDC are my constituents.”
Kennedy on Thursday seemingly defended Monarez’s firing and stated the administration was “not surprised” by the departures.
“I cannot comment on personnel issues, but the agency is in trouble, and we need to fix it — and we are fixing it — and it may be that some people should not be working there anymore,” he stated in an look on “Fox & Friends.”
