Monarez 's ouster, less than one month after the Senate confirmed her to the role, was followed by resignations from three other top CDC officials in protest of Kennedy’s leadership.
The White House said it fired Susan Monarez, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after she refused to step down from her post amid a policy disagreement with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The termination, confirmed late on Aug. 27 by the White House, came after her attorneys denied she had resigned or received notification of her termination, even after HHS announced earlier in the day that Monarez was no longer the CDC director.
Monarez’s ouster, less than one month after the Senate confirmed her to the role, was followed by resignations from three other top CDC officials in protest of Kennedy’s leadership, including his direction on vaccines.
Was she actually qualified for the job? Since she was appointed a month ago, I assumed she was a Project 2025 hire
She was
*Monarez was a Science and Technology Policy Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science.She held roles in the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. National Security Council, where her work included initiatives to combat antimicrobial resistance, expand the use of wearable technology for health monitoring, and improve pandemic preparedness efforts.
At the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Monarez served as deputy assistant secretary for strategy and data analytics, overseeing research portfolios for the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.In this capacity, she also led international cooperative initiatives to foster bilateral and multilateral collaboration in health research and innovation.
In January 2023, Monarez was appointed deputy director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), where she led projects focused on applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve health outcomes, addressing healthcare accessibility and affordability, expanding mental health interventions, combating the opioid epidemic in the United States, addressing disparities in maternal health, and improving organ donation and transplantation systems.*
So people like this have no business in the Trump Administration.
She was qualified? Or she was a Project 2025 stooge?
Qualified
Just so young people or people with short memories are reminded, it’s not “normal” for people in government positions to constantly be appointed and then fired within the same term. That alone is strange, ignoring everything else.
Oh! Right. We do need to tell people this.
People need to be reminded that the Office of the President does not convey unlimited powers, too. Far too many don’t understand that Trump is wrong when he says, “I’m the President, I can [legally] do whatever I want.” The GOP attack on the public school system got a huge boost from No Child Left Behind, and they haven’t let up since. We now have 2.5 generations with an extremely poor grasp on civics.
People need to be reminded that the Office of the President does not convey unlimited powers, too.
Unfortunately that ship has well and truly sailed. People expected Biden to have unlimited powers and were angry that he wasn’t able to unilaterally reverse inflation, end inequality, etc. Now Trump is acting as though he does have unlimited powers and people are treating it as normal because, in the American mind, it is.
He may not be [legally] able to do whatever he wants, but SCOTUS has said he can’t be prosecuted, or even questioned, for anything he does, so what exactly stops him? Just that, sometime after the fact, if they get around to it, a court might reverse his action. (until SCOTUS gets it on the shadow docket)
Laws without penalties are just gentlemen’s agreements.
You all ready for flu season!? lol…. 🍿
