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Senate Committee votes today on Trump's CDC director nominee

By POLITICO  
   July 09, 2025

A Senate committee will vote today on whether to advance the nomination of Susan Monarez, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the CDC. Trump's other picks to lead key health agencies, including Dr. Jay Bhattacharya at the NIH and Dr. Marty Makary at the FDA, had already established themselves as contrarians to the medical establishment during the COVID-19 pandemic. But Monarez has held various health-related roles in the federal government for nearly two decades, initially maintaining a comparatively low profile.

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