FILE - President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
Workers and supporters gather to rally for departing scientific leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention outside the CDC headquarters, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)
The nation’s top public health agency has been left reeling as the White House worked to expel the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director and replace her with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s current deputy, Jim O’Neill.
The turmoil triggered rare bipartisan alarm as Kennedy tries to advance that are contradicted by decades of scientific research.
Two administration officials said Jim O’Neill, the second-in-command at the Department of Health and Human Services, would supplant , a longtime government scientist. O’Neill, a former investment executive who also served at the federal health department under President George W. Bush, doesn't have a medical background. The officials, who confirmed the change, requested anonymity to discuss personnel decisions before a public announcement.
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Trump has no public events on his schedule today
It’s not unusual for the president to spend a day away from the public eye. On Thursday, Trump received an intelligence briefing and signed executive orders, but both of those events were closed to the news media.
Fed governor Cook to seek court order blocking her firing by Trump
A case that could provide the Trump administration with new and expansive power over the Federal Reserve will get its first court hearing Friday.
Federal Reserve Governor has requested an emergency injunction to block President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire her over allegations that she committed mortgage fraud when she purchased a home and condo in 2021. She was appointed to the Fed’s board by former president Joe Biden in 2022.
If her firing is allowed to stand, it would likely erode the Fed’s longstanding independence from day-to-day politics. No president has ever fired a Fed governor in the agency’s 112-year history. Economists broadly support Fed independence because it makes it easier for the central bank to take unpopular steps such as raising interest rates to combat inflation.
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