白宫错过了CDC主任提名的最后期限

2026-03-26 04:24

The Trump administration has failed to provide a nominee to become permanent director of the CDC despite a Wednesday deadline.
The delay means that National Institutes of Health chief Jay Bhattacharya will continue to also steer the CDC, though he will lose the title of acting director.
The trouble finding CDC's new leader is due to growing political and operational pressures, according to The Washington Post.
The newspaper noted, citing officials, that about six people are under consideration, but the White House is taking its time to vet each candidate.
Bloomberg recently reported that Joseph Marine, a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Ernie Fletcher, a family physician and former governor of Kentucky, are among the contenders.
During President Trump's second term, the CDC has been mostly led by acting directors. Susan Monarez was director for barely a month, from July 31 to August 27, 2025, before being fired, apparently for refusing to follow orders from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regarding changes to vaccine policies. She was replaced by acting director Jim O'Neill, who was deputy HHS secretary at the time.

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