Posted on 08/28/2025 3:28:51 PM PDT by balch3
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, says the departures of several high-level officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including Director Susan Monarez, “will require oversight.”
Cassidy, who cast a pivotal vote to confirm Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in February, supported Kennedy’s controversial nomination after receiving his assurance that he would not dismantle the nation’s vaccine safety systems.
The Louisiana Republican posted his statement pledging oversight of the shake-up at CDC on social platform X.
Now, Monarez and several other senior officials at CDC are set to leave their posts after a battle with Kennedy over the administration’s vaccine policies.
The White House announced Wednesday that Monarez had been terminated because she is “not aligned with the president’s agenda of Making America Healthy Again.”
Monarez’s lawyers, Mark S. Zaid and Abbe Lowell, said in a statement that she was targeted for dismissal as part of “the systematic dismantling of public health institutions, the silencing of experts and the dangerous politicization of science.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
“””Monarez’s lawyers, Mark S. Zaid and Abbe Lowell,”””
Those two show up on about every one of these fired people cases.
“Cassidy, who cast a pivotal vote to confirm Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in February, supported Kennedy’s controversial nomination after receiving his assurance that he would not dismantle the nation’s vaccine safety systems.”
You mean he’s going against the people that voted for him????
MY GOD!!
Take a look in the mirror, Bill! We remember your impeachment conviction vote.
Did he try to speak with Kennedy before he made this announcement?
I’m SO sick of Senate Obstructionist RINOs.
He must not be up for re-election next cycle. Time to be a maverick. Smh
He’d better get hold is Sen Cornyn who can advise him that, with a tough reelection next year, he needs to act like a Republican for a year or so
He must not be up for re-election next cycle. Time to be a maverick. Smh
Cassidy is the senior senator from Louisiana and is a Republican. He has served since Jan. 6, 2015. Cassidy is next up for reelection in 2026 and serves until Jan. 3, 2027. He is 67 years old.
Nobody likes Cassidy in Louisiana. He’s on his way out!
“Cassidy making trouble for the President again”
He will be primaried out next April. I am worried he will switch to being a democrat, which is what he originally was.
GOP senators now getting back into their full 2017-2020 treasonous mode...
Easily predicted, as they go along with the American Communist Party’s efforts to derail and/or stall anything Trump wants to do...
Deja Vu, all over again!
This was the plan all along. Control JHS with Cassidy and this woman to neutralize RFK, Jr and make sure we all get shots and other money making poison pills.
No. But this woman went immediately to Cassidy to trash Kennedy and to conspire to not leave.
I see where a woman is going to run against him in the primary.
His term’s up next year. Any chance of getting a good primary challenge?
Nobody likes Cassidy in Louisiana. He’s on his way out!
Sure praying so!!
Thx for the good news.
SEEMS TO ME THAT THE CDC LOST THEIR WAY OVER COVID
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.