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Trump admin yanks CDC nomination for vaccine skeptic Dave Weldon
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1:20Now PlayingThe White House has withdrawn the nomination of vaccine skeptic and former Republican Congressman Dave Weldon to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), hours before he was set to testify before a Senate committee. NY Post politics reporter Josh Christenson shares this story.
Weldon, 71, was slated to answer questions before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee on Thursday — but a White House spokesperson confirmed to The Post that the CDC pick was no longer under consideration.
The reversal came after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confided that Weldon wasn’t ready for the position, according to Axios, which first reported on the nominee’s withdrawal.
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