Lawyers for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Susan Monarez said Wednesday evening that she would not resign, despite attempts by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to oust her for not putting a "rubber-stamp" on "unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts."

"Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor received notification from the White House that she has been fired, and as a person of integrity and devoted to science, she will not resign," lawyers Mark Zaid and Abbe Lowell wrote in a statement on behalf of Monarez.

It comes after HHS posted a statement on X earlier Wednesday, stating that "Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

"We thank her for her dedicated service to t

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