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White House Fires CDC Director
Susan Monarez, the candidate of President Donald Trump as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), testifies during her confirmation hearing for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington on 25 June 2025.
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Less than a month after being sworn in, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez was fired, the White House announced.
Spokesperson Kush Desai of the White House, late on Wednesday, said that Monarez was not “tailored to the president’s agenda to make America healthy again.”
