The White House pulled President Donald Trump's candidates to guide the centers for the control and prevention of diseases.
The move got here just a number of hours before the Republican former legislator in Florida, a vaccine critic, was to look Before the US Senate Committee for Health, Education, Work and Pensions for a hearing for confirmation. The committee said the hearing that was planned for 10 a.m. cancelled.
Axios first reported The decision on Thursday. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who heads the Department of Health and Human Services, said that Weldon was not ready for the role, reported Axios. HHS monitors the CDC and all other federal health agencies.
Weldon said that he was captivated with working with Kennedy and serving the country again reported Thursday.
“It's a shock, but in a way it is relief,” Weldon told the newspaper. “Government jobs demand many of them, and if God does not want me, I agree.”
He said he planned to “get on a plane at 11 a.m. and I'll go home and I'll see patients on Monday,” said the newspaper.
“I will earn a lot more money in my medical practice,” added Weldon.
But Weldon's views are closely related to Kennedy, a notorious vacceptic. Weldon, 71, has long questioned the safety of certain vaccines and the promotion of the false assertion Connect vaccines with autism. In 2006, Weldon appeared With parents who claimed that the CDC had covered evidence, the vaccines tied to children who develop autism.
The CDC is supposedly examined the link of this link under Kennedy, even though it exposes in research for many years.
During the congress, Weldon sponsored a laws that might transfer responsibility for the safety of the vaccine from the CDC. He claimed that the agency had a conflict of interest since it buys and promotes vaccines. The laws never made it, committees.
Weldon has been within the congress within the congress for 14 years from 1995 to 2009.
Senator Patty Murray, a democrat from Washington and Help Committee, said she was “deeply disturbed” by Weldon's false claims about vaccines.
In a proof on Thursday, Murray said: “Although I have little to no confidence in the Trump government, you should immediately nominate someone for this position who at least believes in the basic science and will help manage the important work of CDC to monitor and prevent fatal outbreaks.”
She added that Kennedy is already “incalculable damage by spreading lies and disinformation as a top health officer in America”.
HHS didn’t immediately reply to an inquiry to comment on why the administration of Weldon's nomination and when Trump can select one other person for the post.
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