Posted on 09/17/2025 10:36:23 AM PDT by Mariner
Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez is appearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Wednesday for her first public appearance since she was pushed out of her position leading the nation's public health agency.
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, the panel's chair and a doctor from Louisiana who was one of the key votes to confirm Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said he was focused on learning what led to the abrupt firing of Monarez just weeks after her confirmation.
"Part of our responsibility today is to ask ourselves, if someone is fired 29 days after every Republican votes for her, the Senate confirms her, the secretary said in her swearing in that she has 'unimpeachable scientific credentials' and the president called her an incredible mother and dedicated public servant -- like what happened? Did we fail? Was there something we should have done differently?" Cassidy said.
Monarez, in her opening statement, gave a detailed timeline on the chain of events that she said led to her ouster.
"Since my removal, several explanations have been offered: that I told the secretary I would resign, that I was not aligned with administration priorities, or that I was untrustworthy. None of those reflect what actually happened," Monarez said.
Monarez said there was a meeting in which she says Kennedy told her to preemptively accept recommendations from a CDC vaccine advisory panel and to fire career officials overseeing vaccine policy.
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It was a disagreement about who will set POLICY.
We can never allow unelected bureaucrat to set health policy for the citizenry.
BTW: Bill Cassidy, the Republican Chair, took $300k from Pharma in the 23-34 election cycle.
“Monarez said there was a meeting in which she says Kennedy told her to preemptively accept recommendations from a CDC vaccine advisory panel ....”
Her predecessor overrode the panel and ordered the approval of covid boosters. Good riddance.
You can bet she never had any COVID shots
Disney via Yahoo - nope.
Cassidy needs to tuck it back in and shut his piehole. He’s not the HHS Secretary.
Everyone who’s ever been fired has their own version of why it happened. Sometimes it’s even true.
Didn’t those murderous lying pocket lining mofos change the definition of a f$%^ing vaccination!!!
And why under president Trump is the proper definition of a vaccine not being reinstated?
And why am I seeing commercials advertising the friggn mrna jab on TV again!!!
She seems like a big lying skank!!
So she was potentially another Vindman. Has she ever communicated with Adam Schiff?
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