RFK Jr. Admits Trump Went Around Him on CDC Pick
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified that President Donald Trump didn’t bother to ask him for input on Erica Schwartz, who has been nominated to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The health and human services secretary said that while he had met with her on “multiple occasions” before her nomination, including to discuss her views on vaccines, he admitted that Trump did not seek his input on her nomination.
Kennedy testified to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee that HHS chief counsel Chris Klomp, the number two at the department, had spoken with Trump about Schwartz’s nomination.
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