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On the recordSeptember 4, 2025
I don’t see how you go, over four weeks, from ‘a public health expert with unimpeachable scientific credentials,’ ‘a longtime champion of MAHA values,’ ‘caring’ and ‘compassionate’ and ‘a brilliant microbiologist,’ and four weeks later fire her because, at least the public reports say, because she refused to fire people that work for her.
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Thom Tillis
Republican · North Carolina

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Tillis criticizes Kennedy's firing of CDC director Susan Monarez shortly after her confirmation.

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