US Sen. Lisa Murkowski is once again carving out a solitary path in Washington, this time over the sudden firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez. While most Republican leaders are echoing the White House’s call for “radical transparency” at the troubled agency, Murkowski instead suggested the ouster was proof that “politics are taking precedence over policy.”
“The firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez just a month after her confirmation, along with the departure of other high-level disease experts the day after her termination, raises considerable questions about what is happening within the agency,” Murkowski said. “Americans must be able to fully trust that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rigorously adheres to science-based and data-driven principles when issuing policy directives.”
But Murkowski’s analysis pointedly ignored the rationale provided by both the White House and Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican and medical doctor who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Cassidy, a physician and the first to lead HELP, has embraced the administration’s pledge to overhaul the CDC with accountability and transparency.
“The President and Secretary are right. We need radical transparency. We need to protect the health of our children. The two go together,” Cassidy said this week. “I am committed to the President’s vision, which is why the HELP Committee will conduct oversight.”
The president’s Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reiterated the same message: “The President and Secretary Kennedy are committed to restoring trust and transparency and credibility to the CDC … We’re going to make sure that folks that are in positions of leadership there are aligned with that mission.”
Murkowski interpreted it her own way. She struck a discordant tone, suggesting political interference but offering no specific evidence. While aligning herself with Cassidy’s call for oversight, she stopped short of embracing either the White House’s stated mission or Cassidy’s endorsement of it.
Her remarks underscore a familiar pattern: Murkowski frequently distances herself from both her party and the Trump Administration, always seeing the worst in all-things-Trump, often to the frustration of colleagues who see her equivocation as muddying the message at a time when Republicans are seeking clarity and strength on public health reform.
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Maybe(?) // Most Likely(?), Lisa doesn’t subscribe to the basics:
… Transparency
… Accountability
… Trust in Institutions – Agencies – Non.Elected Officials
… Healthy Society, including Children
It’s a shame our senior Senator is heavily infected with TDS.
I’m not sure what her future holds but, given her ‘poor’ performance, I’m hoping that Alaskans send her packing and heading for retirement … SOON!!!
Princess Pork just can’t work and play well with others.
Unless they are Democrats
Your Senator is an absolute idiot. I cannot classify it any differently.
“Americans must be able to fully trust that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rigorously adheres to science-based and data-driven principles when issuing policy directives.” Murkowski is right about that, for sure, but who could trust an agency that was so completely wrong about COVID? Trust the science? The science that gave us the 6 foot separation rule and the paper mask mandate? The science that led to the majority of Americans getting the mRNA death jab, a “vaccine” that was virtually untested for human use but a failure in every animal trial? The science that Big Pharma tried to lock away for 75 years so that we’d never know the truth? The science that kept morphing going from “the jab will protect you from COVID” to, eventually, “well, at least you won’t die alone in a hospital bed hooked up to a ventilator and shot full of Remdesivir.” And even that turned out to be a lie. If ANYONE has ANY trust left in Big Pharma, industrialized medicine, or these government agencies then they’re probably dumb enough to believe the BS next time also.
Murkowski hangs out with like crooks. She will always be on the side of illegal and corrupt politicians.
I Agree with Murkowski! It should be Policy over Politics!!
The CDC operated like a game of Marco Polo in a dark room regarding Covid. Their response seemed to be a mix of fear, politics and cluelessness. Then Murkowski is driven first by her illogical hatred of the president. A massive lack of common sense all around and we are supposed to trust any of them?
Of course she’s distancing herself from the White House.
It is way past time for her to be relegated to obscurity.
“Americans must be able to fully trust that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rigorously adheres to science-based and data-driven principles when issuing policy directives.”
Sorry Princess, that ship has sailed.