Healthcare Innovation March 13, 2025
Mark Hagland

Hours before his confirmation hearing in the HELP Committee was to begin, David Weldon’s nomination was pulled

In an extraordinary development, the Trump White House On March 13 withdrew the nomination of David Weldon, M.D., to be the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just a couple of hours before his confirmation hearing was to begin in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, with the White House acknowledging that Weldon lacked the support to be confirmed.

ABC News’s Will McDuffie, Katherine Faulders, Rachel Scott, and Cheyenne Haslett wrote on Thursday morning that “The White House on Thursday pulled President Donald Trump’s nomination of Dr. David Weldon to lead the Centers for Disease Control...

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Topics: Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, Healthcare System, Public Health / COVID
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