The Trump administration said Thursday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) needs to align with the president's "Make America Healthy Again" agenda, after the removal of its director and exodus of four other senior leaders.

In an interview on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticized the CDC for touting water fluoridation, vaccines and abortion as pillars of public health.

“We need to look at the priorities of the agency,” Kennedy said in the interview, “if there’s really a deeply, deeply embedded, I would say, malaise at the agency, and we need strong leadership that will go in there and that will be able to execute on President Trump’s broad ambitions.”

“The agency is in trouble, and we need to fix it — and we are

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