Dr. Dave Weldon, who was used in the House of Representatives from 1995 to 2009, is no longer a candidate to manage centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His appointment was removed shortly before a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will have to wait a little longer for a new leader.
The White House withdrew his appointment from Dr. Dave Weldon, a former member of the Florida Congress, soon Before its planned appearance Before Thursday, the Senatorial Committee for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
An official of the White House not authorized to speak publicly told NPR that Weldon did not need the votes necessary for confirmation of the Senate.
President Trump announced Weldon as his choice To direct the CDC on Truth Social in November, praising Weldon’s experience as a doctor, army veteran, politician and family.
During the months that followed, the Weldon file on vaccines was examined, including demystified statements concerning vaccine safety.
Senator Patty Murray, a Washington Democrat healthy committeesaid Weldon had made some of these claims at a meeting on February 20 with her.
“I was deeply disturbed to hear the statements to present Dr. Weldon Repeal’s claims on vaccines-it is dangerous to take charge of the CDC who believes the lie that our infantile vaccination program has been rigorously tested,” she said in a declaration published in response to the withdrawal of the appointment of Weldon.
There were also doubts about Weldon of several Republican members of the health committee. Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski said that she had raised her concerns about her opinions on vaccines with the White House.
Weldon also said in a statement that Sénatrice Susan Collins of Maine and Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana voted against him.
THE four -page declaration was published by The Washington Post And The New York Times. NPR tried to reach Weldon, but did not hear.
Dr. Georges Benjamin, head of the American public Health Association, says that the appointment of Weldon was “condemned to failure” by a constellation of events.
Benjamin cited the anti-vaccine history of Weldon in the middle of the development epidemic in development and chaos of the federal government, including the CDC. “Dr. Weldon was not the right guy for work,” he said.
Weldon, a republican, represented a district in the center of Florida from 1995 to 2009. After his stay in the House of Representatives, he presented himself without success for the American Senate in 2012 and the House of Representatives of Florida in 2024, but was once far away from the public.
After his career at Congress, Weldon returned to practice as an internal medical doctor in Florida and recently held management positions in Privia Quality Network Central Florida, a company that supports the practices of doctors. He was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Defense Group for Israel Allied pro-Israelian defenders, according to forms which he submitted to the Office of Ethics of the United States Government.