On Wednesday, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, held a hearing featuring Susan Monarez, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whom President Donald Trump had fired.
Throughout the hearing, Cassidy asked Monarez about her clashes with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which she said included Kennedy asking her to commit in advance to supporting recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and to fire career CDC officials involved with childhood vaccinations.
