As a deadline arrives this week to nominate a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, some Republicans are skeptical the administration will find someone who can check all the boxes necessary for confirmation.
The candidate will need the “Make America Healthy Again” mindset of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Health and Human Services Department, while also appeasing a set of stick-to-science senators increasingly unhappy with Kennedy’s direction.
After a year of chaos in the public health agency, key senators say they want a moderate public servant, but also someone who will last longer in the job that the administration’s initial choice, who was fired shortly after confirmation.
