Six Republican senators led by Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) are urging President Joe Biden to not appoint former North Carolina Secretary of Public Health Dr. Mandy Cohen to succeed Rochelle Walensky as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“According to recent news reports, you intend to appoint Dr. Mandy Cohen as the next Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We write to express our opposition to Dr. Cohen’s appointment and to urge you to withdraw your reported selection. Dr. Cohen is unfit for the position,” Budd wrote in a June 13 letter to Biden.
