{"id":1943151,"date":"2023-06-02T18:18:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T22:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-taps-anti-police-and-anti-gun-activist-to-lead-cdc\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T18:19:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T22:19:56","slug":"biden-taps-anti-police-and-anti-gun-activist-to-lead-cdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-taps-anti-police-and-anti-gun-activist-to-lead-cdc\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden chooses anti-police and anti-gun activist to head CDC."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-taps-anti-police-and-anti-gun-activist-to-lead-cdc%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1943151&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Mandy Cohen: The Controversial Nominee for CDC Director<\/h2>\n<figure>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/mandy-cohen-secretary-of-the-north-carolina-department-of-health-picture-id1161877589\" alt=\"Mandy Cohen\" \/><figcaption>Mandy Cohen (Photo by Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s likely nominee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director, Mandy Cohen, has a controversial past. Cohen is the co-founder of Doctors for Obama, a medical advocacy group that supports a variety of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/citizens-object-to-2020-election\/\" title=\"Citizens Object To 2020 Election\">radical left-wing<\/a> causes.<\/p>\n<h3>Anti-Police and Anti-Gun Causes<\/h3>\n<p>Doctors for Obama, which later became Doctors for America, began as a pro-Obamacare group. However, in recent years, it has pushed Congress to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrat-dishes-out-profanity-slur-laden-tweet-to-random-person\/\" title=\"House Democrat Dishes Out Profanity, Slur-Laden Tweet To Random Person\">ban semi-automatic rifles<\/a> and treat gun violence as a public health crisis. The organization has also sided with the anti-police movement and launched a campaign to &#8220;demand an anti-racism curriculum in medical institutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cohen&#8217;s affiliation with the left-wing group could exacerbate what is already expected to be a tough confirmation battle. The Biden CDC has been under intense scrutiny thanks in large part to outgoing chief Rochelle Walensky&#8217;s support for pandemic quarantines, mask mandates, and school closures.<\/p>\n<h3>Controversial Coronavirus Policies<\/h3>\n<p>Cohen also pushed controversial coronavirus policies as director of the North Carolina Department of Health. In July 2021, she said schools should require kindergarten to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-education-department-decides-racially-segregated-groups-are-not-discriminatory\/\" title=\"Biden Education Department Decides Racially Segregated Groups Are Not Discriminatory\">eighth-grade students<\/a> and staff members to &#8220;wear masks indoors, regardless of vaccination status.&#8221; In August 2020, while donning a mask with the face of Dr. Anthony Fauci, Cohen called masks &#8220;one of our strongest tools&#8221; to slow the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>There is growing evidence that masks are far less effective at stopping viruses and that universal requirements in schools have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-taps-anti-police-and-anti-gun-activist-to-lead-cdc\/\" title=\"Biden chooses anti-police and anti-gun activist to head CDC.\">hindered students&#8217; classroom performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Endorsement of Defunding Police Departments<\/h3>\n<p>In 2021, Doctors for America endorsed proposals that would defund police departments, including a bill sponsored by Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.) to scale &#8220;back the role of law enforcement.&#8221; The organization also sponsored a report with the left-wing Alliance for Safety and Justice that recommended a reduction in police funding to fund other agencies to deal with &#8220;mental health crisis&#8221; response.<\/p>\n<h3>Endorsement of Gun Control Proposals<\/h3>\n<p>Doctors for America has endorsed various gun control proposals. The group backed Sen. Dianne Feinstein&#8217;s (D., Calif.) 2013 proposal to outlaw &#8220;assault weapons that can accept a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/here-are-all-the-problems-with-californias-expert-witness-testimony-in-gun-ban-case\/\" title=\"Here Are All The Problems With California\u2019s Expert Witness Testimony In Gun Ban Case\">detachable ammunition magazine<\/a>.&#8221; It urged Congress two years later to permit the CDC to research gun violence and to classify the issue as a &#8220;public health epidemic.&#8221; Republicans largely opposed allowing the CDC to conduct research, saying the federal government would use it to enact further gun control.<\/p>\n<h3>Legacy in the Medical Community<\/h3>\n<p>Cohen served as Doctors for America&#8217;s executive director through 2011, but she has maintained ties to the group since her departure. Doctors for America hailed Cohen&#8217;s &#8220;legacy&#8221; in 2021 after her election to the National Academy of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandy Cohen, a potential nominee for the CDC, co-founded Doctors for Obama, a medical advocacy group that supported anti-police and anti-gun causes, among other radical left-wing initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1943153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[5327,16067,10949,3620,5097,13491,5639],"class_list":["post-1943151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-activist","tag-anti-gun","tag-anti-police","tag-biden","tag-cdc","tag-chooses","tag-head"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}