{"id":3966,"date":"2025-05-20T23:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/blunt-rochester-presses-rfk-jr-on-cdc-acting-director\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T23:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T23:02:21","slug":"blunt-rochester-presses-rfk-jr-on-cdc-acting-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/blunt-rochester-presses-rfk-jr-on-cdc-acting-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Blunt Rochester presses RFK Jr. on CDC acting director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Blunt Rochester presses RFK Jr. on CDC acting director<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester has written a stinging letter to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demanding that he clarify whether the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has an acting director.<\/p>\n<p>In her three-page missive, Blunt Rochester suggested that Matthew Buzzelli, the person Kennedy said was the CDC\u2019s acting director, cannot hold the role because he isn\u2019t qualified under the federal Vacancies Act.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/05\/20\/blunt-rochester-presses-rfk-jr-on-cdc-acting-director\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Helen Branswell and Daniel Payne<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/05\/20\/blunt-rochester-presses-rfk-jr-on-cdc-acting-director\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blunt Rochester presses RFK Jr. on CDC acting director Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester has written a stinging letter to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demanding that he clarify whether the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has an acting director. In her three-page missive, Blunt Rochester suggested that Matthew Buzzelli, the person Kennedy said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2145,1428,2149],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-3966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-health","category-rfk-jr","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}