On Thursday, the White House withdrew Thursday for the nomination of President Donald Trump to Dr. David Weldon to lead the centers for disease control and prevention, multiple sources told ABC News.
The withdrawal occurred just before Weldon appeared for his confirmation audience before the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (Help) Committee of the Senate, where he was expected to be looked at in his previous comments by questioning the safety of vaccines. The room was ready for the audience before the developments, which was the first Reported by axios.
Weldon was retired because he did not have the votes to be confirmed, according to two sources familiar with his nomination.
Weldon, a doctor who served in Congress from 1995 to 2009, had maintained a relatively low profile for years until Trump names him in November.
But his skepticism of science established around vaccines made him a popular election among Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s allies, the new Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
As recently as 2019, Weldon promoted the without foundation that vaccines could cause autism.
Former Congressman Dr. David Weldon speaks in the villages, Florida, on May 31, 2012.
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In 2007, Weldon was co -author of a “Vaccine Safety Law” with former Democratic Representative Carolyn Maloney, who sought to control vaccines to an independent agency within the HHS.
The bill, which stagnated in a subcommittee from the House of Representatives, “would provide the necessary independence to ensure that vaccine security research is robust, impartial, free of conflict criticisms and, widely accepted by the general public,” Weldon said in a press release announcing the bill.
Weldon was being considered as a measles outbreak that extends through the United States
Democratic Senator Patty Murray, former president of the Weldon committee was going to testify before, said she raised about the anti -vacuna feeling during her private meeting.
“At our meeting last month, Dr. Weldon repeat the discredited statements about vaccines: it is dangerous to put someone in the position in the CDCs that creates the lie that our rigorously proven child vaccine schedule is presenting in some way the children at toxic levels of mercury or causing autism,” Murray said in a statement.
“As we face one of the worst measles outbreaks in years thanks to President Trump, a vaccine skeptic that spent years spreading lies about safe and proven vaccines should never have been considered to lead the most important agency in charge of protecting public health,” Murray added.
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