{"id":64525,"date":"2025-03-13T23:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/white-house-withdraws-cdc-nominee-over-vaccine-skepticism-as-confirmation-votes-fall-short-amidst-measles-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T23:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:05:10","slug":"white-house-withdraws-cdc-nominee-over-vaccine-skepticism-as-confirmation-votes-fall-short-amidst-measles-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/white-house-withdraws-cdc-nominee-over-vaccine-skepticism-as-confirmation-votes-fall-short-amidst-measles-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"White House withdraws CDC nominee over vaccine skepticism as confirmation votes fall short amidst measles outbreak."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has decided to withdraw Dr. David Weldon&#8217;s nomination to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) due to a lack of confirmation votes. This decision comes amid concerns about Weldon&#8217;s vaccine skepticism and promotion of debunked vaccine claims. Senator Patty Murray has strongly opposed Weldon&#8217;s nomination, citing the potential dangers of his views, especially in light of the significant measles outbreak. This marks the third instance of a nominee being withdrawn by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has decided to withdraw Dr. David Weldon&#8217;s nomination to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) due to a lack of confirmation votes. This decision comes amid concerns about Weldon&#8217;s vaccine skepticism and promotion of debunked vaccine claims. Senator Patty Murray has strongly opposed Weldon&#8217;s nomination, citing the potential dangers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":64526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-118986311imgsize-1432207.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-118986311imgsize-1432207-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-118986311imgsize-1432207-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-118986311imgsize-1432207-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-118986311imgsize-1432207-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-118986311imgsize-1432207.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/msid-118986311imgsize-1432207.jpg",1280,720,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/author\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/category\/just-in\/\" rel=\"category tag\">JUST IN<\/a>","tag_info":"JUST IN","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}