Dr. Dave Weldon, who served within the Home of Representatives from 1995 to 2009, is now not a candidate to run the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. His nomination was withdrawn shortly earlier than a Senate affirmation listening to Thursday.
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The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention must wait a bit of longer for a brand new chief.
The White Home withdrew its nomination of Dr. Dave Weldon, a former Florida congressman, shortly before his scheduled appearance earlier than the Senate Well being, Training, Labor and Pensions Committee Thursday.
A White Home official not licensed to talk publicly advised NPR that Weldon did not have the votes wanted for affirmation by the Senate.
President Trump announced Weldon as his pick to guide CDC on Fact Social in November, praising Weldon’s expertise as a medical physician, military veteran, politician and household man.
Within the months since, Weldon’s file on vaccines has been scrutinized, together with debunked claims about vaccine security.
Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington who sits on the health committee, stated that Weldon had made a few of these claims in a Feb. 20 assembly along with her.
“I used to be deeply disturbed to listen to Dr. Weldon repeat debunked claims about vaccines — it is harmful to place somebody in cost at CDC who believes the lie that our rigorously examined childhood vaccine schedule is in some way exposing children to poisonous ranges of mercury or inflicting autism,” she stated in a press release launched in response to the withdrawal of Weldon’s nomination.
Weldon, a Republican, represented a district in central Florida from 1995 to 2009. After his stint within the Home of Representatives, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 2012 and the Florida Home of Representatives in 2024, however has in any other case stored largely out of the general public eye.
After his congressional profession, Weldon returned to follow as an inner medication physician in Florida, and just lately held management positions at Privia High quality Community Central Florida, an organization that helps doctor practices. He was additionally board chairman for the pro-Israel advocacy group Israel Allies Basis, in line with varieties he submitted to the U.S. Workplace of Authorities Ethics.
