(TheProudRepublic.com) – BREAKING NEWS: The White House pulled Dr. David Weldon as the key nomination for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director, marking a significant win for the establishment of medical bureaucracy.
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Weldon, who had questioned vaccine safety protocols, faced fierce opposition from Democrats and lacked enough Senate votes for confirmation.
His withdrawal exposes how political forces still control healthcare oversight despite Trump’s promises to drain the swamp.
In November, President Trump nominated Weldon, a former Florida congressman, to lead the CDC.
His nomination marked the first time a CDC director nominee required Senate confirmation, a new hurdle created specifically for the Trump administration’s appointees.
The White House withdrew Weldon’s nomination before his scheduled confirmation hearing with the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and an administration official acknowledged the lack of necessary votes for his confirmation.
Weldon’s skepticism about vaccine safety protocols aligned with those of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who advocated for greater transparency in vaccine research.
In 2007, Weldon co-authored a “vaccine safety bill” with former Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) that would have established an independent agency for vaccine safety research away from CDC control.
According to Weldon, the bill aimed to “provide the independence necessary to ensure that vaccine safety research is robust, unbiased, free from conflict of interest criticism, and broadly accepted by the public at large. ”
Democrats immediately attacked Weldon’s nomination. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) led the charge, claiming she was “deeply disturbed to hear Dr. Weldon repeat debunked claims about vaccines.”
Murray further accused, “It’s dangerous to put someone in charge at CDC who believes the lie that our rigorously tested childhood vaccine schedule is somehow exposing kids to toxic levels of mercury or causing autism.”
Moreover, the mainstream media amplified these attacks, repeating claims that Weldon had promoted “unproven theories” linking vaccines to autism as recently as 2019 while ignoring his experience as both a physician and former congressman with oversight experience.
The CDC, which controls a massive $9.2 billion budget, faced widespread criticism during the COVID-19 pandemic for constantly changing guidance, suppressing alternative scientific viewpoints, and working too closely with pharmaceutical companies that profit from their recommendations.
Weldon becomes the third Trump administration nominee not to reach a confirmation hearing in this term.
Meanwhile, Susan Monarez will continue serving as acting CDC director until a new nominee is confirmed.
Other Trump nominees, including Dr. Marty Makary for FDA leadership and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for NIH leadership, continue advancing through the nomination process despite facing similar resistance from establishment medical interests.
The agency has recently been criticized for reopening studies on potential vaccine-autism links and canceling a meeting of immunization advisers.
This suggests that the agency may finally be addressing the long-standing concerns about transparency that Weldon championed during his congressional career.
With Weldon’s nomination withdrawal, the battle over public health leadership continues as Americans increasingly question whether political considerations have overtaken scientific integrity at agencies meant to protect public health.
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