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'Hopeless': CDC staff in turmoil amid Trump administration's effort to oust director
ABC news ^ | 8/28/25 | Will Steakin, Cheyenne Haslett, Youri Benadjaoud, Mary Kekatos, and Dr. Mark Abdelmalek

Posted on 09/01/2025 11:04:37 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tell ABC News the agency has descended into turmoil as senior officials offer their resignations over the Trump administration's effort to oust the agency's new director.

A dozen CDC staffers, speaking on the condition of anonymity, described the mood inside the agency to ABC News, including some who said Thursday that the last 24 hours have left them questioning how much longer they should remain in their roles amid fears that the agency is, in the words of one staffer, "changing from a trusted scientific organization to a personal dictatorship" run by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

"How are we supposed to function as an agency if everything has to run through a man who doesn't believe in basic scientific principles?" a CDC staffer told ABC News. "[Kennedy] can keep saying buzzwords like 'gold standard science' and 'restoring scientific integrity,' but it means nothing if he fires anyone who disagrees with his personal ideology."

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I know an article from 4 days ago, but it shows the hubris of the so called "experts".
1 posted on 09/01/2025 11:04:37 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

awwwwwwwwwwwww poor loaves, I will be sure to light a candle for them tonight LOL..no longer will we be hearing about “Pregnant people” from these loons


2 posted on 09/01/2025 11:05:39 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: DallasBiff

Fire them all.


3 posted on 09/01/2025 11:07:16 AM PDT by johnnygeneric (Could we...again?)
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To: DallasBiff

They say this like its a bad thing. At least they won’t have time to covertly fund gain of function research.


4 posted on 09/01/2025 11:08:54 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: DallasBiff

“tur·moil
[ˈtərˌmoil]
noun
a state of great disturbance, confusion, or uncertainty:
“the country was in turmoil” · “he endured years of inner turmoil””

Wow! How, exactly, does one experience turmoil? How would it manifest itself? “Janice. I wanted coffee, but I’m in turmoil! Maybe what I want is a vasectomy.”


5 posted on 09/01/2025 11:11:22 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry. )
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To: DallasBiff

They believe their own press releases.


6 posted on 09/01/2025 11:12:04 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: johnnygeneric

Fire them all.
________________________
Purging a deeply engrained ideological mindset is very difficult. The weasels will try to hide and wait it out. This is why your suggestion is the only way.


7 posted on 09/01/2025 11:12:20 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: DallasBiff

“Hopeless Bureaucracy” Sounds like exactly what we voted for.


8 posted on 09/01/2025 11:13:08 AM PDT by JewishRighter (NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW)
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To: DallasBiff

Oh no! One tenth percent of staffers complain!


9 posted on 09/01/2025 11:13:40 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: DallasBiff

“changing from a trusted scientific organization to a personal dictatorship” run by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.


Dictatorship??

Give me your vax mandates!!!
Give me your lock downs!!!
Give me your mask wearers or you cannot shop for food!!!


10 posted on 09/01/2025 11:14:25 AM PDT by God luvs America
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To: DallasBiff

Trusted? They haven’t been trusted by folks with 3 digit IQs since their role in the Fauci scandal.


11 posted on 09/01/2025 11:16:03 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: DallasBiff
"And that's a good thing"

-Forrest Gump

12 posted on 09/01/2025 11:16:56 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: DallasBiff

Boo hoo.


13 posted on 09/01/2025 11:17:02 AM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: DallasBiff

If it’s so intolerable for them, why don’t the quit? They sound a bit masochistic.


14 posted on 09/01/2025 11:17:35 AM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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To: DallasBiff

Turmoil? How about cancelled? Defunded? Torn down? Eliminated?


15 posted on 09/01/2025 11:17:36 AM PDT by albie
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“changing from a trusted scientific organization”

They are clueless. Maybe Trump should adopt a customer feedback address where flyover Americans can send feedback that gets randomly distributed to all CDC employees so they get a real sense of how much they are trusted.


16 posted on 09/01/2025 11:22:12 AM PDT by alternatives?
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have left them questioning how much longer they should remain in their roles

I support these people leaving right now in solidarity with wazhername. Stand up and let your voices be heard. Stand up against The Man. Or for other reasons. Just leave now.

17 posted on 09/01/2025 11:22:17 AM PDT by Colorado Doug
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changing from a trusted scientific organization to a personal dictatorship

Not trusted.

18 posted on 09/01/2025 11:23:40 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: DallasBiff

A bunch of entitled, whining leftist scum is hopeless?

Winning.


19 posted on 09/01/2025 11:29:26 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: DallasBiff

Reminds me of that great quote from Dr. Ray Stantz: “”I’ve worked in the private sector... they expect results!””

(For those of you in Rio Linda, the above quote is from the Ghostbusters)


20 posted on 09/01/2025 11:29:58 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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