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Senate Committee Advances Monarez for CDC Director

She won a 12-11 party-line vote, setting up a showdown over her authority to approve vaccine recommendations from the restructured ACIP panel.

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Susan Monarez, President Donald Trump's nominee to be director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, arrives to testify before the Senate HELP Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Susan Monarez, nominee to be director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during her confirmation hearing in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
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Overview

  • The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved Susan Monarez’s nomination 12-11 along party lines, moving it to the full Senate.
  • Monarez has served as acting CDC director since January and was tapped by President Trump in March, making her the first nominee under a 2023 law requiring Senate confirmation.
  • If confirmed, she would be the first non-physician to lead the CDC in more than half a century, holding a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology.
  • Democrats criticized her reluctance to distance herself from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine skepticism after he overhauled the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
  • Republicans praised her nearly two decades in public health and emphasis on evidence-based guidance during the recent rise in measles and other outbreaks.