Former CDC Director Susan Monarez said at a Senate committee hearing Wednesday that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did not call her after a gunman opened fire at the agency’s Atlanta headquarters.

“So are you telling me that the secretary of Health and Human Services failed to even give you a courtesy call upon learning that employees there had been shot at?” Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., asked.

“He did not call me,” Monarez confirmed.

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