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