FILE - Susan Monarez, President Donald Trump's nominee to be director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, arrives to testify before the Senate HELP Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

The director of the nation’s top public health agency, Susan Monarez, was fired by President Donald Trump himself late Wednesday because she wasn’t “aligned with the president’s mission” and refused to resign, according to the White House press secretary. Monarez’s lawyers said she was targeted for standing up for science.

Four other agency leaders resigned on Wednesday. “We knew … if she leaves, we don’t have scientific leadership anymore, ” one of the officials, Dr. Debra Houry, told The Associated Press on Thursd

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