Susan Monarez is refusing to step down from her position as director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the White House seeks to fire her.

The Department for Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that Monarez, a longtime federal government scientist who assumed her role just weeks earlier, was “no longer director” of the CDC in an X post Wednesday evening. Attorneys representing Monarez pushed back, saying that Monarez had not “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.”

“When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directive and fire dedicated health experts she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda,” at

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