{"id":12741,"date":"2025-08-30T01:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T01:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/who-is-jim-oneill-trumps-new-cdc-director\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T01:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T01:21:13","slug":"who-is-jim-oneill-trumps-new-cdc-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/who-is-jim-oneill-trumps-new-cdc-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Jim O&#8217;Neill, Trump&#8217;s new CDC director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House quickly named a new leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed out Director Susan Monarez this week. Jim O&#8217;Neill, a senior Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official with deep ties to President Trump donor Peter Thiel&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5478188-who-is-jim-oneill-trumps-new-cdc-director\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House quickly named a new leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed out Director Susan Monarez this week. Jim O&#8217;Neill, a senior Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official with deep ties to President Trump donor Peter Thiel&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12741","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\/12741","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=12741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}