SEATTLE (AP) — The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California announced Wednesday that they created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putting Americans' health and safety at risk the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The move comes with COVID-19 cases rising and as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has the CDC and attempted to advance that are contradicted by decades of scientific research. Concerns about staffing and budget cuts were heightened after the White House sought to the agency’s director and some top CDC leaders resigned in protest.

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