{"id":12781,"date":"2025-08-31T01:20:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/sanders-pressures-rfk-jr-to-resign-as-health-chief-after-cdc-chaos\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T01:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:20:43","slug":"sanders-pressures-rfk-jr-to-resign-as-health-chief-after-cdc-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/sanders-pressures-rfk-jr-to-resign-as-health-chief-after-cdc-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders pressures RFK Jr. to resign as Health chief after CDC chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is pressuring Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign after this week&rsquo;s tumult at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that saw top officials depart after the agency director was ousted.  Sanders, the ranking member on the Senate Health&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5479097-sanders-pressures-rfk-jk-resign-health-chief-cdc-chaos\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is pressuring Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign after this week&rsquo;s tumult at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that saw top officials depart after the agency director was ousted. Sanders, the ranking member on the Senate Health&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12781","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\/12781","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=12781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}