{"id":1946461,"date":"2023-06-14T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-republicans-gird-to-fight-bidens-cdc-pick\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T05:02:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T09:02:34","slug":"senate-republicans-gird-to-fight-bidens-cdc-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-republicans-gird-to-fight-bidens-cdc-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP prepares to battle Biden&#8217;s CDC nominee."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fsenate-republicans-gird-to-fight-bidens-cdc-pick%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=1946461&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>Republican Senators Urge Biden Not to Appoint Mandy Cohen as CDC Director<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0613\/afa5a1e7-4778-464e-857e-d02fd3ebef4d\/audio.mp3?length=3638925&#038;duration=303\"><\/div>\n<p>Six Republican senators, led by Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), are urging President Joe Biden not to appoint former North Carolina Secretary of Public Health Mandy Cohen to succeed Rochelle Walensky as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAccording to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/third-gop-governor-responds-after-biden-calls-tx-ms-governors-neanderthal-thinkers-count-me-as-one\/\" title=\"Third GOP Governor Responds After Biden Calls TX, MS Governors \u2018Neanderthal\u2019 Thinkers: \u2018Count Me As One\u2019\">recent news reports<\/a>, you intend to appoint Dr. Mandy Cohen as the next Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We write to express our opposition to Dr. Cohen\u2019s appointment and to urge you to withdraw your reported selection. Dr. Cohen is unfit for the position,\u201d Budd said in a June 13 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.budd.senate.gov\/press-releases\/budd-colleagues-send-letter-opposing-mandy-cohens-cdc-nomination\/\">letter<\/a> to Biden.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Joining Budd in signing the letter were Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah), J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), and Mike Braun (R-Ind.). Also signing the letter were 22 Republican House members, led by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas).<\/p>\n<h3>Why the Opposition?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Politicizing Science:<\/b> \u201cThroughout her career, Dr. Cohen has politicized science, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-republicans-gird-to-fight-bidens-cdc-pick\/\" title=\"GOP prepares to battle Biden's CDC nominee.\">disregarded civil liberties<\/a>, and spread misinformation about the efficacy and necessity of COVID vaccinations and the necessity of masks, during her time as the Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services,\u201d the letter continued.<\/li>\n<li><b>Partisan Leftwing Politics:<\/b> \u201cDespite being tasked to serve in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/redistricting-battles-heat-up-as-democrats-play-gerrymander-hardball-and-the-house-hangs-in-the-balance\/\" title=\"Redistricting Battles Heat Up as Democrats Play Gerrymander Hardball and the House Hangs in the Balance\">purportedly nonpartisan agency<\/a>, Dr. Cohen has an extensive history of publicly campaigning for Democrats and supporting radical, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rich-biden-supporter-gets-taste-of-her-own-socialist-medicine-yall-asking-for-handouts\/\" title=\"Rich Biden Supporter Gets Taste of Her Own Socialist Medicine: \u2018Y\u2019all Asking for Handouts\u2019\">left-wing policies<\/a>. In 2009, she served as the National Outreach Director for the group \u2018Doctors for Obama,\u2019 later known as \u2018Doctors for America,\u2019 a partisan political association that not only campaigned for Obama\u2019s presidency but also endorsed an unconstitutional ban on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-makes-false-gun-claims-signals-biden-may-use-executive-action-to-crackdown-on-second-amendment\/\" title=\"Harris Makes False Gun Claims, Signals Biden May Use Executive Action To Crackdown On Second Amendment\">semi-automatic rifles<\/a> and lobbied to classify climate change as a \u2018public health crisis,\u201d the signers wrote.<\/li>\n<li><b>Unscientific COVID Restrictions:<\/b> \u201cShe also has a history of engaging in partisan leftwing politics. As Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Cohen was a proponent of unnecessary, unscientific COVID restrictions on school children, stating in July 2021 that \u2018schools with students in K-8th grade should require all children and staff to wear masks indoors, regardless of vaccination status. Schools with students in 9th-12th grades should ensure that anyone who isn\u2019t fully vaccinated, including students, wear a mask indoors.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5131526\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/03\/17\/Ted-Budd-GettyImages-1245967649-1200x779.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/03\/17\/Ted-Budd-GettyImages-1245967649-1200x779.jpg\" alt=\"Ted Budd\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether Biden will heed the call of these Republican lawmakers and withdraw Cohen&#8217;s nomination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDC Director. We urge you to reconsider this decision,\u201d wrote six Republican senators, led by Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), in a letter to President Joe Biden. They are opposing the appointment of former North Carolina Secretary of Public Health Mandy Cohen as the successor to Rochelle Walensky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":1946462,"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":[543],"tags":[6731,3706,5097,6203,4904,5678],"class_list":["post-1946461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-battle","tag-bidens","tag-cdc","tag-gop","tag-nominee","tag-prepares"],"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\/1946461","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}