Fired CDC Head Will Say RFK Jr. Put Politics Over Policy (2)

Susan Monarez will offer new details on her ouster as head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at a congressional hearing, including that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.directed that all policy and personnel decisions would have to be cleared by the agency’s political staff.

Monarez — who was fired just weeks into the job as CDC director — is set to testify in front of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee on Wednesday.

Ahead of the hearing, the Department of Health and Human Services struck back, saying that the former CDC director “acted ...