Fired CDC Director Buries RFK Jr. in Scorching WSJ Op-Ed — Accuses Him and Anti-Vax Allies of ‘Sabotage’

David Gilmour Sep 4th, 2025, 11:26 am

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Hours before Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced off against the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill, the woman he fired as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dropped a scorching takedown in the Wall Street Journal accusing him of the “sabotage” of public health.

Dr Susan Monarez , ousted after just 29 days in the role, accused Kennedy and his allies in the blistering op-ed of orchestrating “a deliberate effort to weaken America’s public-health system and vaccine protections.”

“That isn’t reform. It is sabotage,” she wrote.

Monarez, a career scientist who was confi

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