The White House has pulled its nomination of Dave Weldon for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director.
A source from the White House shared, “It became clear that the votes weren’t there in the Senate for him to get confirmed. This would have been a futile effort.”
As a result of the White House of withdrawing its nomination of Weldon, The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee has cancelled his hearing which was scheduled on Thursday morning.
President Trump just withdrew Dr. Dave Weldon’s nomination to lead CDC.
Dr. Weldon is a MAHA champion who SLAMMED the CDC’s censorship of vaccine safety data in a 2002 hearing.
“The CDC still does not allow researchers access to the vaccine safety data.”
“If everything was so… pic.twitter.com/eppy43v8zw
— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) March 13, 2025
President Trump just withdrew Dr. Dave Weldon’s nomination to lead CDC.
Dr. Weldon is a MAHA champion who SLAMMED the CDC’s censorship of vaccine safety data in a 2002 hearing.
“The CDC still does not allow researchers access to the vaccine safety data.”
“If everything was so objective and any scientist at all can look at this stuff, it would be one thing.”
“But they continue to deny people access to this information.”
“Until we get a free and open dialogue within the scientific community, I don’t think I will ever be satisfied that there isn’t some data suggesting that some children may have serious side effects from some of these vaccines that is really going undetected, unnoticed and yes, it may actually cause autism.”
“The problem is we’re trying to investigate a sacred cow.”
“For a lot of people in the medical community, there’s this tremendous fear if you say anything negative about vaccines, then parents will stop vaccinating their kids, and then you’ll have all these outbreaks of diseases.”
“We have a responsibility to them to really find out if there’s truth in all this, and I don’t think the answers are in.”
The reason why Trump withdrew his nomination is not yet clear, so I’m holding out hope that CDC will get a great MAHA Director.
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🚨The White House just withdrew CDC director nominee Dave Weldon.
There's something fishy going on…Weldon was a top tier pick.
Here he is calling out the CDC for gatekeeping vaccine safety data👇 pic.twitter.com/HL31ljfxu2
— Died Suddenly (@DiedSuddenly_) March 13, 2025
Check out what Fox News reported:
The White House is pulling the nomination of Dave Weldon for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director, Fox News Digital has confirmed. Weldon was expected to have his confirmation hearing on Thursday.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee announced that it canceled its hearing in a statement on Thursday morning. However, it confirmed that lawmakers would still vote on the nominations of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for National Institutes of Health (NIH) director and Dr. Marty Makary for Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
“It became clear that the votes weren’t there in the Senate for him to get confirmed. This would have been a futile effort,” a source familiar with the nomination told Fox News Digital. However, there is no official reason for pulling the nomination at this time.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Weldon was unaware that his nomination had been pulled until he reached the Capitol on Thursday morning. However, Fox News Digital’s source said Weldon was told last night.
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