CDC director being ousted weeks into job

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

August 27, 2025 at 4:15 p.m. EDT


Susan Monarez, the newly installed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is being ousted weeks after she was confirmed to lead the public health agency, according to multiple administration officials familiar with the matter.

The White House and Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees CDC, did not immediately respond to requests for comments. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive personnel matter.

President Donald Trump had nominated Monarez, a longtime federal government scientist, after withdrawing his first pick, former Republican congressman Dave Weldon, who was criticized for his views on vaccines and autism. Monarez was confirmed in July.

Monarez had scheduled an agencywide call Monday, but that was canceled Friday, according to several CDC employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/08/27/susan-monarez-cdc-director-ousted/

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Just breaking.

[tanyev]

1. What was her "crime"? Actually trying to get the new Covid vaccine out to people?

[Ray Bruns]

13. Absolutely!

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. It's a revolving door at some of these agencies...the IRS for one.

Will there come a time when drumpf runs out of absolute loyalists to oversee these agencies? And will he take them over then? Maybe he could even fire himself.

[msongs]

3. maybe she wouldnt give brain worm some....favors nt

[hlthe2b]

4. I'm guessing she couldn't abide by the total whitewashing of anti-vaxx ideology and non-science behind

RFK Jr. and others assigned to "protect the public's health and medical future."

I don't know that she was one I'd support, but I'd bet she was more rational than those with the knives out for her.

[Turbineguy]

5. She hasn't killed enough people.

[JohnnyRingo]

6. I'll bet he just found someone he likes better.

Probably a contributor whom doesn't want a cushy ambassadorship. I wouldn't be surprised if he did this on a regular basis depending how much lipstick they left on his ass.
He's a fickle prick.

[MrWowWow]

7. Is This Because She's Got the "Wrong" Genitalia?

Whouda Thunk it!

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Amazing she got the job in the first place - five things Trump hates about her

"Susan" - she's a woman
"Monarez" - she used to be married to someone Hispanic
"federal government" - means she should be sacked
"scientist" - an elitist trying to tell him what to do, rather than a manly man with tears in his eyes calling him "Sir"
"longtime" - the only "longtime" thing allowed around here is worship of Trump.

[The Blue Flower]

9. Health and science will not be tolerated!

Caught in the act of committing science!

[bmichaelh]

10. CDC Director's lawyers say she is not leaving

One report says she was not fired and has not resigned.

http://rawstory.com/susan-monarez-2673934060/

[BumRushDaShow]

11. AP has similar

CDC director Susan Monarez is out after less than a month on the job and other agency leaders resign

By MIKE STOBBE
Updated 7:50 PM EDT, August 27, 2025


NEW YORK (AP) — The director of the nation’s top public health agency is out after less than one month in the job, and several top agency leaders have resigned.

“Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We thank her for her dedicated service to the American people,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wrote in a social media post Wednesday. HHS officials did not explain why Monarez was no longer with the agency.

On Wednesday evening, her lawyers Mark Zaid and Abbe David Lowell issued a statement that said she had neither resigned nor been told she was fired.

“When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda. For that, she has been targeted,” the attorneys wrote.

(snip)

She must have been in a meeting filled with babbling idiots and monkeys flinging poo.

[Old Crank]

12. People visiting from other countries

Will soon need to get vaccinations against diseases like we want people traveling to India and Africa. We will become a plague nation.

[cab67]

14. just as bad -

we may have to travel abroad to get our own vaccinations.

[Prairie Gates]

15. Has there been a modern admin that has fired more of their own nominees inside of the first year on the job?

What a chaos.