The Senate Is Out for Robert Kennedy Over Monarez

There is large shakeup occurring at the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Shakeup that might only occur under the management of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. As this performs out, it turns into more and more clear why both Democrat and Republican senators so vociferously opposed his nomination. Republicans fell in line to get him confirmed, but with this tempest still brewing, will their allegiance to the Trump and MAHA agendas maintain?

Kennedy not too long ago fired CDC Director Susan Monarez over her refusal to align with Kennedy’s objectives concerning removing of the COVID mRNA vaccine from the childhood vaccine schedule, and her resistance to goals of the MAHA agenda. 

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Monarez lawyered up, and then took to favored legacy media, The Washington Post, to declare that she has not actually been fired, and that Kennedy is a hazard to public health.

Following Monarez’s firing, three chief CDC officers tendered their resignation: Dan Jernigan, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; Deb Houry, chief medical officer, and Demetre Daskalakis, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. 

Daskalakis, the brazenly homosexual bondage advocate also identified as former President Joe Biden’s “Monkeypox Czar,” has been making the rounds on legacy media, trashing Kennedy and the Trump administration for making this all about politics. Apparently he failed to look in the mirror that morning. Daskalakis also wants the public to know that Kennedy is an existential menace to the survivability of the CDC and to the health and security of Americans.

This is Biden’s Monkeypox Czar, because of course it’s 🙄 pic.twitter.com/0QpWrSJ9e1

— The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦 (@Rob_ThaBuilder) August 14, 2024

As my colleague streiff wrote:

The event was the end result of the tumultuous 30-day reign of CDC Director Susan Monarez, during which she made it abundantly clear that she was not in collaborating with RFK, Jr., on his “MAHA” agenda. Once it grew to become clear that Monarez was out and CDC was no longer a personal playground but half of the federal authorities, three other officers, including Dr. Monkeypox, resigned.

Last Wednesday, as kind of a prelude to today, 750 CDC staff despatched a letter to RFK, Jr., and Congress accusing him of contributing to harassment and violence against authorities staff because somebody who, rightly or wrongly, blamed CDC for his health issues, fired some 180 rifle rounds into CDC Headquarters. In the method, he killed a DeKalb County police officer before killing himself.

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The Chairman and rating member of the Senate HELP Committee are demanding solutions. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is especially exercised, calling for an investigation into the firing.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is pushing for a bipartisan investigation into the firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez, which prompted the resignations of 4 other senior leaders at the company. 

The rating member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee pointed to statements by the previous CDC officers that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been placing political stress on the company. 

“[Kennedy] is pushing out scientific leaders who refuse to act as a rubber stamp for his dangerous conspiracy theories and manipulate science. Enough is enough,” Sanders wrote in a Thursday letter to Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy, R-La. “We have got to make it clear to Secretary Kennedy that his actions to double down on his war on science and disinformation campaign must end. Too many lives are at stake.”

Cassidy’s workplace didn’t reply to a request for remark, but the senator did post on X that this matter would require oversight by the committee. Cassidy, a medical doctor, had expressed reservations about the nomination of Kennedy, who has unfold misinformation about vaccines for years. But he agreed to help him after receiving a number of commitments associated to vaccines. 

Sanders particularly requested that Kennedy, Monarez and the CDC officers who resigned testify at a listening to. Kennedy is scheduled to testify next week before the Senate Finance Committee. 

These high profile departures will require oversight by the HELP Committee. https://t.co/38xBrC7cC6

— U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (@SenBillCassidy) August 28, 2025

Then there may be a Monday opinion/visitor essay printed in the New York Times, signed by former appearing and confirmed CDC administrators. The essay, titled “We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health,” aligns with the talking points coming from the Monarez camp and the disaffected CDC officials. The signees— William Foege, William Roper, David Satcher, Jeffrey Koplan, Richard Besser, Tom Frieden, Anne Schuchat, Rochelle P. Walensky and Mandy K. Cohen—span Democrat and Republican administrations from the late 1970s up to the Biden Administration.

What Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has done to the C.D.C. and to our nation’s public health system over the past several months — culminating in his decision to fire Dr. Susan Monarez as C.D.C. director days ago — is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced.

In this they are not wrong: Kennedy is doing something unprecedented. Namely, working to return public health back to actual care and resource for Americans, rather than one that uses Americans as experimental fodder for world agencies and their globalist agendas.

Secretary Kennedy has fired thousands of federal health workers and severely weakened programs designed to protect Americans from cancer, heart attacks, strokes, lead poisoning, injury, violence and more. Amid the largest measles outbreak in the United States in a generation, he’s focused on unproven “treatments” while downplaying vaccines. He canceled investments in promising medical research that will depart us sick ready for future health emergencies. He replaced experts on federal health advisory committees with unqualified individuals who share his dangerous and unscientific views. He announced the end of U.S. support for global vaccination programs that protect millions of children and keep Americans safe, citing flawed research and making inaccurate statements. And he championed federal laws that will trigger hundreds of thousands of people with health insurance coverage through Medicaid to lose their coverage. Firing Dr. Monarez — which led to the resignations of top C.D.C. officers — provides appreciable fuel to this raging fire.

Actually, the CDC has been severely weakened for a long time, and has failed to shield Americans health, particularly the health of kids. 

The chronic disease epidemic that plagues our nation has performed out on all their watches, which suggests they’ve failed. This was no more obvious than during the COVID period, which occurred under former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky. Monarez was also a rating official in the CDC during this period, and she has been particularly named in a new lawsuit which targets the CDC’s childhood immunization program.

Two docs who misplaced their medical licenses because they questioned the CDC’s vaccine suggestions for kids are suing the company for failing to take a look at the cumulative impact of the 72-dose schedule on kids’s health.

Drs. Paul Thomas and Kenneth P. Stoller and Stand for Health Freedom filed the lawsuit last week in federal court, alleging the shortage of security testing violates federal law and kids’s constitutional rights.

The lawsuit names Susan Monarez, Ph.D., in her official capability as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Attorney Rick Jaffe, who represents the plaintiffs, said the lawsuit “goes to the heart of the CDC’s childhood immunization program — a 72-plus dose medical intervention schedule that has never been tested.”

The CDC’s failures weren’t just about health, they carried large financial and social prices too. Lockdowns crushed small companies, children misplaced years of schooling and mandates divided the nation. America wants establishments that shield both lives and livelihoods not ones pushed…

— Eeva Mila (@WineyLover) September 1, 2025

The vanity and self-importance of these @CDCgov bureaucrats is past perception. The actuality is that the US would have been better off with no CDC at all during the pandemic. Their efficiency was a Chernobyl-level disaster. Their incompetence delayed the start of widespread testing at least a month, main to panicked lockdowns. They compelled ineffective masks over the faces of kids for years. They delayed opening of colleges for hundreds of thousands of children. They misinformed the public on security and efficacy of the vaccines, creating the rationale for the unlawful mandates that divided the nation. They rubber-stamped covid boosters for healthy children in the absence of any science or rationale. They can’t credibly argue that the CDC saved a single life. 

And their message is still based on fearmongering. It is all that they know and all that they’ve. Fear of unknown infectious disease “threats.” They have realized nothing at all from the pandemic. Nothing.

[…]

Eeva Mila’s full response:

The CDC’s failures weren’t just about health, they carried large financial and social prices too. Lockdowns crushed small companies, children misplaced years of schooling and mandates divided the nation. America wants establishments that shield both lives and livelihoods not ones pushed by worry and politics.

So, this “essay,” reads very similar to the 51 “Intelligence” officers who signed a letter confirming that the Hunter Biden laptop computer was Russian disinformation. It offers the looks of Monarez and her legal staff setting the desk for the oversight listening to Sens. Sanders and Cassidy will plan, along with Kennedy’s scheduled Thursday assembly before the Senate Finance Committee. Ranking member Ron Wyden (D-OR) is already sharpening his knives.

“After the mass firings and resignations of respected senior scientists and public servants at CDC over the last 24 hours, it is more imperative than ever that Kennedy answer to the public and their representatives about the chaos, confusion, and harm his actions are inflicting on American families,” Wyden said. “Contrary to his promises of radical transparency, federal health agencies have been shrouded in secrecy and misinformation with no accountability to the public or Congress. Amid the largest cuts to American health care in history, Kennedy’s radical secrecy is setting up the nation for a health calamity.”

Newsflash to the senator: we’re already in a health calamity; but for those with an agenda, that half is conveniently ignored. In the meantime, Kennedy stands firm in the selections he made on these issues as effectively as his focus on doing precise investigation of root causes, not just placing up window dressing for political functions or adhering Band-Aids over chronic wounds.

Last week RFK Jr. fired Susan Monarez, head of CDC.

His feedback spoke to this agenda precisely:

“CDC has on its web site today that among the top 10 best medical accomplishments in historical past was abortion (because it retains small households), fluoridation (giving children a toxin),… pic.twitter.com/7fbCrTl1im

— Lauren Lee (@sheislaurenlee) September 1, 2025

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