Dr. Dave Weldon, who served within the Home of Representatives from 1995 to 2009, is not a candidate to run the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. His nomination was withdrawn shortly earlier than a Senate affirmation listening to Thursday.
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The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention must wait a bit longer for a brand new chief.
The White Home withdrew its nomination of Dr. Dave Weldon, a former Florida congressman, shortly earlier than his scheduled look earlier than the Senate Well being, Training, Labor and Pensions Committee on Thursday.
A White Home official not approved to talk publicly advised NPR that Weldon did not have the votes wanted for affirmation by the Senate.
President Trump introduced Weldon as his decide to steer the CDC on Reality Social in November, praising Weldon’s expertise as a medical physician, Military veteran, politician and household man.
Within the months since, Weldon’s document on vaccines has been scrutinized, together with debunked claims about vaccine security.
Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington who sits on the well being committee, mentioned Weldon had made a few of these claims in a Feb. 20 assembly along with her.
“I used to be deeply disturbed to listen to Dr. Weldon repeat debunked claims about vaccines — it is harmful to place somebody in cost at CDC who believes the lie that our rigorously examined childhood vaccine schedule is someway exposing youngsters to poisonous ranges of mercury or inflicting autism,” she mentioned in a press release launched in response to the withdrawal of Weldon’s nomination.
Weldon, a Republican, represented a district in central Florida from 1995 to 2009. After his stint within the Home of Representatives, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 2012 and the Florida Home of Representatives in 2024, however has in any other case stored largely out of the general public eye.
After his congressional profession, Weldon returned to apply as an inside drugs physician in Florida and just lately held management positions at Privia High quality Community Central Florida, an organization that helps doctor practices. He was additionally board chairman for the pro-Israel advocacy group Israel Allies Basis, in accordance with kinds he submitted to the U.S. Workplace of Authorities Ethics.
