(StraightShooterNews.com) – Moments before his confirmation hearing with the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), President Trump’s nominee for the CDC direction, Dr. Dave Weldon, was pulled.
Weldon, a former Florida congressman and physician who President Trump nominated in November, became the latest casualty in what appears to be a targeted campaign against health officials willing to question vaccine industry orthodoxy.
This withdrawal comes during a measles outbreak that establishment figures are already using to push mandatory vaccination narratives.
Dr. Weldon’s skepticism about vaccine safety aligned with the views of current HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has consistently advocated for more rigorous vaccine safety testing.
Notably, Weldon co-authored a “vaccine safety bill” in 2007 that would have established an independent agency for vaccine research outside the CDC’s influence.
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.”
Moreover, the withdrawal came after it became clear Weldon lacked the necessary votes for confirmation, with Democrat Senator Patty Murray leading the opposition. She stated:
“In our meeting last month, I was deeply disturbed to hear Dr. Weldon repeat debunked claims about vaccines — 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.”
This development is particularly significant as it marks the first time a CDC director nominee has required Senate confirmation.
This change gives career politicians unprecedented control over who can lead the nation’s primary public health agency.
The $9.2 billion agency remains under acting leadership while Americans question its handling of critical health issues.
Weldon has a history of challenging vaccine safety studies and promoting investigations into potential links between vaccines and autism as recently as 2019.
Rather than allowing these concerns to be aired publicly and scientifically evaluated, the political establishment effectively silenced them by blocking his nomination.
Meanwhile, the CDC has recently been criticized for reopening studies on vaccine-autism links and canceling meetings of immunization advisers.
The decision to withdraw Weldon’s nomination highlights the ongoing battle between the medical establishment and those questioning the status quo of America’s vaccine program.
Even though Weldon’s nomination has been pulled, other Trump administration health nominees are still advancing.
Dr. Marty Makary and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, both critics of pandemic policies that trample on American freedoms, continue to progress in their nominations for FDA and NIH leadership, respectively.
The CDC, which faced widespread criticism for its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and its shifting, often contradictory guidance, remains in flux as a Senate working group examines potential reforms for the agency.
This leadership vacuum is critical as Americans increasingly question the agency’s independence from pharmaceutical influence and its commitment to transparent scientific inquiry over politically motivated health mandates.
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