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Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:50 PM Aug 28

Whatever the CDC Dir. refused to do for Trump must have been something really horrible

...because she's basically gone along with the worst of Trump's executive orders relating to gender and sexual identity.

WH:

"As her attorney’s statement makes abundantly clear, Susan Monarez is not aligned with the President’s agenda of Making America Healthy Again," White House spokesman Kush Desai said. "Since Susan Monarez refused to resign despite informing HHS leadership of her intent to do so, the White House has terminated Monarez from her position with the CDC."


NYT:

Monarez has reportedly demonstrated a willingness to comply with controversial executive orders from the Trump White House in her two months as acting CDC director. The New York Times reported, citing people with knowledge of events, that Monarez did not resist Trump’s order to take down CDC web pages containing terms like “LGBTQ” and “transgender” and did not seek to preserve important data.

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