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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
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