WASHINGTON — The ousted director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Susan Monarez, told lawmakers Wednesday that her boss, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., told her he plans to change the childhood vaccine schedule this month.

She also said Kennedy told her he had spoken to President Trump about upcoming changes to the vaccine schedule before he pushed her out of the agency.

The comments came during a tense hearing before a Senate health committee, which was set to investigate alleged political influences on the decision-making of America’s leading public health institution.

“He did not have any data or science to point to,” Monarez said of the conversation with Kennedy about the childhood vaccine schedule. She said she told Kennedy she would be “open to changing”

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