Trump fires CDC head after one month on the job. Her lawyers say she ‘refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives’

Cush Disai spokesman said on Wednesday night that Susan Monarerez “is not compatible with” President Donald Trump’s agenda and refused to resign, so the White House ended it.

Her lawyers said that she was targeted to enter the science.

The US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services announced its departure in a brief publication of social media late on Wednesday afternoon. Her lawyers responded with a statement saying that Monares did not resign and was not told that she was expelled.

“When Susan Monarerez, director of the Center for Disease Control, Susan Monarerez, refused the non -scientific directives, and the fire exhausted experts from fires, she chose to protect the public to serve a political agenda. Therefore, it was targeted.”

They said: “This is not a single official. It is related to the systematic dismantling of public health institutions, silence of experts, and the dangerous politicization of science. The attack on Dr. Monares is a warning to every American: our evidence -based systems are undermined.”

Her departure coincided with the resignation this week of four senior officials from the Center for Disease Control. The list includes Dr. Dibra Hurai, deputy director of the agency; Dr. Daniel Genenegan, Head of the National Center for Emerging and Emerging Diseases; Dr. Demeter Daskalakis, Head of the Center for Vacation and respiratory diseases; Dr. Jennifer Leiden, Director of Public Health Data Office, Monitoring and Technology.

In an e -mail seen by Associated Press, she regretted the effects of the disrupted on the agency of the budget planned cuts and reorganization and extinguishing.

“I am committed to protecting the health of the public, but the ongoing changes prevent me from continuing my job as the agency’s leader.”

She also noticed the rise of wrong information about vaccines during the current Trump administration, and hinted at new borders on the calls of the Disease Control Center.

“For the sake of the interest of the nation and the world, science should not be subject to the center of control of diseases on censorship or subject to political interpretations or interpretations.”

Daskalakis worked closely with the Consulting Committee for Iris -Evidence. Kennedy reshaped the committee by shooting everyone and replacing them with a group that included many skeptics of the vaccines-one of whom was responsible for the COVID-19 vaccine working group.

In his resignation speech, Daskalakis expressed his regret that the changes put “people with a doubtful and more accurate scientific intelligence responsible for recommending the policy of vaccine.” He described Monares as “Utarong and marginalized by an authoritarian leader.” He added: “Their desire to satisfy a political base will lead to the death and disability of the weak children and adults.”

He also wrote: “I am unable to serve in a CDC deal as a tool to create policies and materials that do not reflect the scientific reality.”

HHS officials did not immediately respond to questions about the resignation.

Some public health experts have criticized the loss of many CDC leaders.

“This is a divorced disaster for public health,” said Dr. Robert Steinbruck from the public citizen.

Michael Ostohm, an infectious researcher at the University of Minnesota, said the departures “a dangerous loss for America.”

He said, “The loss of global -level infectious diseases at the Disease Control Center is directly related to the failed leadership of extremists currently responsible for the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services,” he said. “They make our country less safe and less prepared for public health emergencies.”

Monarerez, 50, was the agency’s twenty -first manager and the first to pass through the assertion of the Senate after the 2023 law. She was appointed as the Acting Manager in January, then took advantage of it as a candidate in March after Trump suddenly pulled his first choice, David Wildon.

The constitutional oath led on July 31-less than a month ago, which made it the shortest director of the Center for Disease Control in the history of the agency, who is 79 years old.

Its short time was at the center of controlling diseases. On August 8, at the end of its first full week in the job, Georgia’s man opened fire from a place in a pharmacy across the street from the main entrance to the Center for Disease Control. The 30-year-old blames the Covid-19 vaccine for making it depressed and suicide. A police officer was killed and more than 180 rounds were launched in the buildings of the Disease Control Center before killing himself.

No one was injured in CDC, but he ascended employees who already had low morale of other modern changes.

Monareraz has set the date of the “All Hands Meeting” meeting for the employees of the Disease Control Center – which is seen as an important step in addressing fears between employees since the shooting – on Monday this week. But HHS officials also interfered with it, and they canceled it and contacted Monares to Washington, DC, an official who was not allowed to talk about and spoke to AP provided that his identity was not disclosed.

The Atlanta -based Federal Agency was initially established to prevent malaria from spreading in the United States whose mission was later expanded, and it has gradually became a global leader in infectious and chronic diseases and a source of health information.

It was exposed this year through widespread discounts for employees, the resignation of the main officials and the hot controversy over the policies of the Dispond to a long time that the Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy Junior.

During the Senate confirmation process, Monares told the members of the Senate that it appreciates vaccines, public health interventions and strict scientific evidence. But she raged to a large extent of questions about whether these situations put them in conflict with Kennedy, a long -suspicious vaccine that criticized and sought to dismantle some protocols and previous agency’s decisions.

senator Patti Murray, a democratic in Washington, praised Monares to stand in front of Kennedy and called for his expulsion.

She said in a statement on Wednesday night.

The Washington Post reported for the first time Monarerez was expelled.

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AP Apr CEPASATS correspondent in Washington contributed to this report.

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