Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, said in a statement provided to Mother Jones that Weldon “was not the right choice to lead the CDC.” ...

which aimed to move most vaccine safety research from the CDC to an HHS independent agency. It did not pass Congress. President Donald Trump said in a Nov. 22 Truth Social post that Dr. Weldon ...

This was the first time a CDC director nominee had to be be Senate ... control over vaccine safety to an independent agency within HHS. The bill, which stalled in a House subcommittee, would ...

“The president is a busy man doing good work for our nation, and the last thing he needs is a controversy about CDC.” A spokesperson for Cassidy denied that Cassidy asked the administration to ...

In a recent interview, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said "...we see a correlation between people who get hurt by measles and people who don’t have good nutrition or who don’t have a ...

Matt Gaetz was Donald Trump’s first personnel fiasco, but not last. Take Dave Weldon's failed CDC nomination, for example. By Steve Benen UPDATE (March 19, 2025, 5:11 p.m. ET): This post has ...

The Trump administration has withdrawn the nomination of former Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Fla., to serve as director of the Centers for Disease Control just before his Senate hearing was scheduled to begin.