{"id":12708,"date":"2025-08-29T02:20:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-senators-express-unease-over-rfk-jr-s-cdc-shake-up\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T02:20:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:20:56","slug":"gop-senators-express-unease-over-rfk-jr-s-cdc-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-senators-express-unease-over-rfk-jr-s-cdc-shake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP senators express unease over RFK Jr.\u2019s CDC shake-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two influential GOP senators are expressing unease over Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&rsquo;s firing of Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which led to the resignations of four other high-ranking CDC officials. The strongest pushback among Republicans on Capitol Hill came Thursday from Sen&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5476369-cdc-leadership-fired-congress-concerns\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two influential GOP senators are expressing unease over Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&rsquo;s firing of Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which led to the resignations of four other high-ranking CDC officials. The strongest pushback among Republicans on Capitol Hill came Thursday from Sen&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}