{"id":35940,"date":"2025-03-13T16:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/white-house-pulls-nomination-for-head-of-cdc-on-day-of-confirmation-hearing\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T16:18:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:18:43","slug":"white-house-pulls-nomination-for-head-of-cdc-on-day-of-confirmation-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/white-house-pulls-nomination-for-head-of-cdc-on-day-of-confirmation-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"White House pulls nomination for head of CDC on day of confirmation hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump pick Dave Weldon has faced scrutiny over anti-vaccine views and says RFK Jr is \u2018very upset\u2019 by withdrawal<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/mar\/13\/donald-trump-tariffs-canada-eu-us-politics-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> withdrew its nomination to lead the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday, the day he was due to face a confirmation hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/03\/13\/white-house-pulls-cdc-nomination\">broke<\/a> the news that Dave Weldon, a 71-year-old doctor and former Republican Florida congressman, would not face a hearing as planned.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/13\/dave-weldon-cdc-nomination-withdrawn\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump pick Dave Weldon has faced scrutiny over anti-vaccine views and says RFK Jr is \u2018very upset\u2019 by withdrawal US politics live \u2013 latest updates The Trump administration withdrew its nomination to lead the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday, the day he was due to face a confirmation hearing. Axios &#8230; <a title=\"White House pulls nomination for head of CDC on day of confirmation hearing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/white-house-pulls-nomination-for-head-of-cdc-on-day-of-confirmation-hearing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about White House pulls nomination for head of CDC on day of confirmation hearing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}