Dr. Susan Monarez painted a picture of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s oversight of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday, testifying to a Senate committee that the health secretary pushes his preferred policies “regardless of the scientific evidence.”

Kennedy fired Monarez from her role as director of the CDC in late August. The move came after she refused to comply with Kennedy’s vaccine policies, citing ethical and scientific concerns with the secretary’s actions since his confirmation in February.

Testifying before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), Monarez said demands Kennedy made of her were “inconsistent with my oath of office and the ethics required of a public official.”

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