Yep. He was forced to pull his first nominee for CDC director due to the nominee being an anti-vaxxer: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/13/dave-weldon-vacc

Yep. He was forced to pull his first nominee for CDC director due to the nominee being an anti-vaxxer: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/13/dave-weldon-vaccine-skeptic-cdc-00228884 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/13/dave-weldon-vaccine... > Weldon, a Florida representative from 1995 until 2009, has been critical of the federal government’s oversight of vaccine safety. While in the House, he sponsored a bill that would have taken vaccine safety oversight from the CDC and created a separate “Agency for Vaccine Safety Evaluation” under HHS, and as recently as 2019 repeated the disproved claim that “some children can get an autism spectrum disorder from a vaccine” in an interview.