The purge at the top of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention crystalizes the dilemma facing many professional officials across the US government.

Is their duty to medical science, economic data, or the best possible conclusions to be drawn from intelligence?

Or should they reflect the world as President Donald Trump wants it to be?

The White House on Thursday laid out the choice after the firing of CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez after she clashed with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policy and declined to dismiss top agency officials.

“It was President Trump who was overwhelmingly reelected on November 5. This woman has never received a vote in her life,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said . “If people are not align

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