Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., demanded Friday that President Donald Trump fire Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., claiming Kennedy’s “stubborn, pigheaded and conspiracy-based attacks on proven science are going to make many more people sick and cause more deaths.”
Schumer’s demands came two days after Susan Monarez was fired as head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Hill reported Monarez’s firing led to the resignations of other senior officials, including Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; Daniel Jernigan, director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; and Debra Houry, the chief medical officer.
“Donald Trump knew Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be a disastrous pick to lead healthcare in America, and he nominated him anyway,” Schumer said in a statement on the Senate Democrats’ website. “Donald Trump made this mistake and now he must fire RFK Jr. immediately.”
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