The Fixer Arrives at the Wrecking Yard
The administration hands a golden steering wheel to the agency's third nominee, while the staff exodus and political chaos remain the actual policy.
Source article: Schwartz faces Senate as Trump’s third CDC director nominee.
Column metadata
- Published
- Pen name
- Editorial Board
- Topic tags
- public health, health treatment and procedure, government policy, political process, epidemic and pandemic
- Storylines
- cdc-leadership, trump-health-administration
- Primary entities
- Erica Schwartz, CDC, Senate HELP Committee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Susan Monarez, Matt Buckham, Sean Slovenski, Sean Kaufman, Marcus Plescia, Georges Benjamin, Bernie Sanders
- Themes
- Public health leadership, Senate confirmation, Federal agency governance, Vaccine policy
- Floor values engaged
- Accountability of power, Truthfulness, Informed citizenship