Monarez 's ouster, less than one month after the Senate confirmed her to the role, was followed by resignations from three other top CDC officials in protest of Kennedy’s leadership.
The White House said it fired Susan Monarez, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after she refused to step down from her post amid a policy disagreement with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The termination, confirmed late on Aug. 27 by the White House, came after her attorneys denied she had resigned or received notification of her termination, even after HHS announced earlier in the day that Monarez was no longer the CDC director.
Monarez’s ouster, less than one month after the Senate confirmed her to the role, was followed by resignations from three other top CDC officials in protest of Kennedy’s leadership, including his direction on vaccines.
Just so young people or people with short memories are reminded, it’s not “normal” for people in government positions to constantly be appointed and then fired within the same term. That alone is strange, ignoring everything else.
Oh! Right. We do need to tell people this.
People need to be reminded that the Office of the President does not convey unlimited powers, too. Far too many don’t understand that Trump is wrong when he says, “I’m the President, I can [legally] do whatever I want.” The GOP attack on the public school system got a huge boost from No Child Left Behind, and they haven’t let up since. We now have 2.5 generations with an extremely poor grasp on civics.
Unfortunately that ship has well and truly sailed. People expected Biden to have unlimited powers and were angry that he wasn’t able to unilaterally reverse inflation, end inequality, etc. Now Trump is acting as though he does have unlimited powers and people are treating it as normal because, in the American mind, it is.
He may not be [legally] able to do whatever he wants, but SCOTUS has said he can’t be prosecuted, or even questioned, for anything he does, so what exactly stops him? Just that, sometime after the fact, if they get around to it, a court might reverse his action. (until SCOTUS gets it on the shadow docket)
Laws without penalties are just gentlemen’s agreements.