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A White House official confirms that President Donald Trump will nominate Susan Monarez, the acting director of the U.S.

Dr. Dave Weldon, a former Florida congressman and physician, is set to appear at a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday for his nomination to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Former Congressman Dr. Dave Weldon speaks in The Villages, Fla., on May 31, 2012. Reporter President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...

The White House’s bid to install a vaccine-skeptic ally of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. atop the CDC fell apart this ...

The president's pick will be the first CDC director to undergo the Senate confirmation process after a change passed by Congress in 2022 . Any nominee will face tough questions over a range of health ...

Former congressman Dr. Dave Weldon blames pharmaceutical industry lobbying for contributing to the withdrawal of his nomination as director of the CDC, as some Republicans may have voted against him.

NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. David Weldon had been out of the national spotlight for more than 15 years when he was nominated to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But many anti-vaccine ...

President Donald Trump abruptly pulled his nomination of Dr. David Weldon to head the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Just 12 hours before Dave Weldon, a former congressman from Florida, was supposed to appear before the Senate health committee at the Capitol, a White House staffer informed him his nomination had ...

Former Rep. Dave Weldon’s nomination was withdrawn after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went cold on his fellow vaccine skeptic, Axios reported Thursday, but Weldon ...