{"id":7809,"date":"2026-07-30T14:38:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=7809"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:38:33","slug":"white-house-nominee-for-cdc-director-advances-to-full-senate-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=7809","title":{"rendered":"White House nominee for CDC director advances to full Senate vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n            Two nominees to lead public health at the Health and Human Services Department cleared a committee vote Thursday, moving them closer to being confirmed into the roles after extended talks between federal officials and senators about vaccine misinformation.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=7807\">CNN Poll: A third of Democrats now identify as democratic socialists<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Sen. Bill Cassidy, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said Thursday morning that he will support the nominations of Dr. Erica Schwartz to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Sean Kaufman, nominee to lead the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response. He said his decision came after multiple conversations with top HHS officials about removing claims about vaccines and autism from the CDC website, and making personnel changes at the agency.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            HHS last week edited a claim on that website \u2014 saying there is not evidence that vaccines do not cause autism \u2014 in an apparent bid to assure the nominees would get through a committee vote. Cassidy said Thursday morning that discussions about the website are not over.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cWhile there have been changes to the CDC website, any assertion that there is a link between autism and vaccines is wrong. We don\u2019t know what causes autism, but study after study shows that it is not vaccines,\u201d he said. \u201cThe administration is committed to continuing the work to remove vaccine misinformation from that website. This is something, again, that I\u2019ll pay close attention to as HHS nominees move through the confirmation process.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Cassidy had previously raised concerns about Schwartz\u2019s independence and autonomy to lead CDC following her predecessor\u2019s ouster. He also raised Kaufman\u2019s past remarks questioning the safety and effectiveness of immunizations including mRNA vaccines.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=7803\">CNN Poll: Voters favor Democrats by an 8-point margin heading into the midterms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cMr. Kaufman has said some pretty stupid things, and really harmful things, regarding immunization. He has owned up to that in his conversations with me. I am assured that if he is confirmed, he will not be involved in vaccine policy, and nor will he be the ultimate decision maker on certain issues like mRNA because of his past statements,\u201d Cassidy said Thursday.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cYou sometimes don\u2019t get the nominee that you\u2019d like to have, but you get a nominee that you have to have,\u201d Cassidy added in reference to Kaufman.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            All Republicans on the committee and Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, voted for Schwartz\u2019s nomination. Committee members voted along party lines on Kaufman\u2019s nomination.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            It is unlikely that the full Senate will vote to confirm either nominee ahead of August recess, raising the prospect that the two will not be confirmed before September.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=7799\">Here\u2019s what to know before you upload your medical data to an AI program<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two nominees to lead public health at the Health and Human Services Department cleared a committee vote Thursday, moving them closer to being confirmed into the roles after extended talks between federal officials and senators about vaccine misinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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