Who is in charge at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? | Trump administration
Who is responsible for the US Disease Control and Prevention Centers (CDC)? The answer is more complex than it seems.
According to legal experts, Robert F Kennedy JR, who is not approved or has no acting CDC director, is directly controlled by the agency and allows to sign or not be vaccinated.
Nevertheless, the US Ministry of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Kennedy said that he carried out the agency of someone else before a Senate committee in May – it created confusion that could lead to legal difficulties.
Paul Paul Offit, Professor of Pediatry Faculty of Pennsylvania Perelman Paul Offit, said, “There is no CDC Director or Director of Power. Essentially, RFK is the director of JR CDC.”
“Kennedy now has much more opportunities to influence the outcome of these decisions and take action in the absence of a senate -approved manager, Ren
Landers, 17 independent vaccine consultants, some of the dismissal and some of the anti-vaccine activism with less experienced consultants, especially Kennedy’nin germ theory and rejecting their own anti-health activism, “he said,” he said.
On Thursday, independent vaccine consultants appointed by Kennedy voted for a protective (also known as thiomeral) from 4% of the influenza vaccines in the United States.
96% of the remaining influenza vaccines and all other childhood vaccines were not caused by too much care, despite decades of research showing the safety of the preservatives. The movement will make it difficult for some people to access the flu vaccine.
The recommendation will normally be taken by the CDC director to reject the agency’s guidance or officially implement it. But for now, these decisions go to Kennedy, who has used these skills before.
On May 13, “Waiting for a new CDC director to be approved”, the health secretary, Chikungunia vaccines officially proposed by the CDC proposal. in accordance with To the agency’s website.
Kennedy did not sign the Committee’s votes for two other vaccines against RSV and meningitis.
These vaccines proposed by the independent consultants rejected by Kennedy this month have not received official CDC proposals; It is not clear whether they are or when they are.
Kennedy also directed the CDC to change COVID vaccine suggestions, despite strong evidence that pregnancy was an important risk factor for severe illness and death, softened the proposal for children and ended completely for pregnant people.
“Power vacuum’s ability to make these inconsistent decisions with scientific consensus.” He said.
In 2023, the Congress issued a new law on the fact that CDC managers should now be under the Senate approval. This appointment CDC Director for the first time passed the process.
“A little undiscovered waters, Land Landers said.
David Weldon was first nominated and then withdrawn hours before the Senate Approval hearing in March.
Susan Monarez served as acting director from 23 January until he was nominated on 24 March and resigned at this point. After someone is nominated for the director, they cannot serve as acting manager.
Monarez testified at the Senate Approval hearing on Wednesday, but it is not clear when deputies will vote for the candidacy.
According to the 1998 Federal Federal Pisance Reform Law, the HHS President is controlling the agency in the absence of an acting manager.
At the Stanford Faculty of Law, Professor Anne Joseph O’Connell is signing that CDC proposals can not “transfer” to other officials within the scope of the empty Pilgrimage Law; HHS Secretary “can only rise”.
“What is unusual about this situation is that we think that when there is a lower -level gap when there is a lower level, many of them do not trust the secretary on these issues,” he said.
Kennedy gave a different name for the Senate for who was responsible for the CDC in his testimony in May before the Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee.
“Who is acting CDC Director?” Democratic Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester from Delaware.
Describing Buzzelli as a “a public health expert ,, he said,“ The acting director was Susan Monarez, but now ready for the permanent director, so Matt Buzzelli took it instead ”.
But Buzzelli, a lawyer, listed He is the Deputy Chief of General Staff in the CDC Director’s office and is not qualified for the position.
“Buzzelli acting cannot be the president of the CDC, O’Connell said. The Senate was not approved by the CDC Director’s first assistant and did not serve 90 days before the CDC’s last director, O’Connell said: “There is no wiggling room.”
Experts, lack of clarity, Trump administration united with the need for information needs, he said. CDC must update a personnel management office every year with other agencies. area It is a deadline that the agencies missed in March.
Buzzelli “If necessary, he performs some duties of the CDC director as a senior official and is surrounded by high qualified medical experts and consultants to help perform these tasks properly”, HHS Communication Director Andrew Nixon, said Stat news in May. (HHS did not respond to Guardian’s media investigation.)
Such actions may open up authorities to legal difficulties. They would not have a determined authority to make certain decisions without official documentation that called Buzzelli and other decision -makers to official positions, which meant that their actions could challenge.
For example, the state may not have the authority to enter new contracts with local, tribal and regional governments or to terminate previous agreements early – potentially causes such actions.
“The person who takes the action must be legally assigned to the position. To the extent that the agencies are trying to skirt, he leaves decisions vulnerable to legal difficulties,” Landers said.
