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5 high-level CDC officials are leaving in the latest turmoil for the

public health agency

By MIKE STOBBE for these individuals to do
AP Medical Writer their jobs on a daily basis
NEW YORK (AP) — The Cen- must be enormous,” said
ters for Disease Control and Jason Schwartz, a Yale
Prevention was rocked by University health policy re-
five high-level departures searcher who studies gov-
on Tuesday in the latest ernment health agencies.
turmoil for the nation’s top “The future of CDC is under
public health agency. threat, by any measure.
The departures were an- It’s understandable why
nounced at a meeting of individuals may decide to
agency senior leaders. The move on rather than see
Atlanta-based CDC has the agency diminished in
two dozen centers and of- its works, and its resources,
fices. The heads of five of and its ability to do its job.”
them are stepping down, But losing a number of ex-
and that follows three perienced leaders is clearly
other departures in recent an additional blow to an
weeks. This means close to already besieged agency,
a third of the agency’s top Schwartz added.
management is leaving or The latest departures in-
left recently. clude:
The departures described Leslie Ann Dauphin, who
as retirements were not oversees the Public Health
announced publicly. The A sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Infrastructure Center and its
Associated Press confirmed Atlanta, on Oct. 8, 2013. more than 500 employees.
the news with two CDC of- Associated Press That center coordinates
ficials who were not autho- not clear how much, if any, Senate hearing. CDC em- White House officials are CDC funding, strategy,
rized to discuss it and spoke influence that had on the ployees including the or- reviewing a work force re- and technical assistance
on condition of anonymity. leaders’ decision to leave. ganization’s leaders have duction proposal for CDC to state, local and territorial
The announcements come The Trump administration been bracing themselves and other federal health health departments.
a day after the White earlier this month withdrew for moves by the Trump ad- agencies that was submit- Dr. Karen Remley, who
House announced it is its nomination of former ministration to lay off staff ted earlier this month. Its heads the National Center
nominating Susan Monarez Florida congressman Dr. and possibly dramatically contents have not been on Birth Defects and Devel-
to be CDC director. But it’s David Weldon just before a reorganize the agency. disclosed. “The challenges opmental Disabilities. q
Appeals court allows Trump administration to suspend approval

of new refugees amid lawsuit

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and GENE JOHNSON
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — An appeals court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration
to stop approving new refugees for entry into the U.S. as a lawsuit plays out over the
president’s executive order halting the nation’s refugee admissions system.
Refugees who were conditionally approved before President Donald Trump took of-
fice must still be processed under the order from a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
panel, but the judges allowed the Republican administration to suspend new approv-
als.
The appeals court panel largely halted a ruling from U.S. District Judge Jamal White-
head in Seattle.
He found that Trump could not nullify the law passed by Congress establishing the
program, and it must be restarted.
Whitehead, who was appointed President Joe Biden, a Democrat, said the president
does have substantial discretion to suspend refugee admissions but the authority was
President Donald Trump waves to the media as he walks on not limitless. He pointed to reports of refugees stranded in dangerous places, families
the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, Saturday,
March 22, 2025. separated from relatives in the U.S. and people sold all their possessions for travel to
Associated Press the U.S. that was later canceled.q