Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC: “We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired."
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC: “We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired."
Murray says she initially had "serious doubts" about CDC director Monarez’s willingness to stand up to RFK's attacks on public health. "I’m glad to say that I was wrong." “Monarez’s willingness to stand up for science and protect the integrity of the CDC is commendable and deeply important."
"...however, it only further underscores the reality at HHS: Director Monarez is not the problem, RFK Jr. is."
Statement from Dr. Tina Tan, president of Infectious Diseases Society of America: THE SUSTAINED ATTACKS ON PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE U.S. MUST END NOW.
Resistance to this regime is coming rom all the places I didn’t expect while all the places I did are folding preemptively.
Never underestimate a pissed off woman from WA
True story !
Hmmmm, how do we solve it? RFK Jr. is in control of health care agencies, he has the support of turmp. So, what to do? Anyone? Bueller? I keep making suggestions, doesn’t seem too popular. So, what then? Just get back in line and go along with it? That won’t work for me.
No violence, no war, no comply. Reject their authority. Walk away.
As long as Jr. keeps kissing donnie's ass he will not be fired.
Patty's my Senator and I appreciate her words. The problem is she may as well go to the top of the Space Needle and shout this out at the top of her lungs. It will do as much good as where she originally spoke.
2026! If not sooner!
Share!
preferably into the sun…
He is crazy just like the madman in the WH.
Go get him, Sen. Murray. I hope your colleagues join you in this endeavor.
Patty Murray is a superstar.
Sen Murray has the seniority and a pretty good take on things Good if she and others can stop it
good luck with that.
Kennedy will never be fired. Trump needs him because he can’t stand the fact that it’s possibly his not perfect genes that led to him having an autistic son. Kennedy tells him autism is from vaccines.
I’m sorry, autistic what? 😒
Barron
So what are you doing about it?
Yes!
I'll take "what will it take to make assassinations vouge again"? For $400 Alex.......
Yes -- this must happen: no excuses!
Joking right? Trump would never fire RFK. He’s a great distraction to Trumps autocratic agenda. #EmperorTrump
Yep
Please demand his resignation!!
👏L👏F👏GO! I’ve had enough of that idiot. He is killing people.
Good. Hopefully she's not the last.
Yeah, talk is cheap. What the hell is she going to do? Nothing. Dems are whimps especially Jeffries. At this time in history, we need fighters not phucking diplomats.
I voted for our awesome Sen. Patty Murray💕🕊️💕🕊️💕
That's a good Washingtonian!
It should be obvious, even to Trump’s “I love the poorly educated”, that you can either support Trump or the Constitution but not both.
So she's sending a sternly worded letter. Wow. 🙄
FINALLY
@booker.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov This constituent of yours agrees.
Good luck finding someone with the power to fire him. Unlikely as long as the orange felon is in charge. Not a single repub is willing to do the right thing. Their salaries are more important to them than their constituents, and apparently, none of them worry about the health of their own families
@murray.senate.gov CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH Please do what you can before he destroys the CDC and people die!
Of course he should be fired, but who does she think will do that? Or stop the destruction of the CDC? Dem leaders need to stop issuing statements telling us how the situation ought to unfold & doing more to talk directly to the people. Stand out in front of HHS daily with a megaphone if you have to
That’s my Senator!
fired lol the only way to really fix this involves prison sentences, yall need to dream bigger
Every day in every way the Republican party re-affirms it is nothing more than a death cult
Thank you Sen. Murray!💙
He should be fired but that won't happen. Employees are going to have to organize and either do work slowdowns or strikes in order to wrest the control of these institutions away from madmen. No more working within the system. People balk at striking but it can be more powerful than resignations.
What the fuck are the MAGA assholes doing? Cheering the motherfucker!?
Trump will not fire him unless a core Congressional group make a visit to him with some hard facts. Even then he may not fire him. Laura Loomer would need to approve Congress must impeach
The guy is nuts. His own family begged the public not to vote for him. Musk bought his election as well as many other clowns in this cabinet. Heroine has killed his brain cells, hell,even a worm left his head due to dead ends!!
WTH ever happened to his running mate?
Well, who is going to do that Patty? Does she have an extra 30 million dollars laying around she can funnel to TACO? The governors of some blue states are just now telling PEDO to shove it and taking action. I suggest Ms. Murray come up with a plan of action if she doesn’t have the bribe.
When Americans can no longer trust the CDC we're in major trouble!
If our government wasn’t tragically broken, he would have never been confirmed. 😢
People don’t seem to understand that every public health measure acts as a subsidy to health insurance companies. The premiums that millions can barely afford now, are going to soar. Current tables used by insurers are based on an America where vaccinations are available. Where measles is virtually
Eradicated and things like TB are extremely rare. They are based on an America where public health is monitored and outbreaks are noticed and measures taken. That is all ended now. The coming fiscal disaster from this alone is enough to collapse the country
Gonna have to arrest his boss first.
Oh, another strongly worded letter? I'm sure that will fix everything.
Is he a distraction too?
So impeach him…..at least try!!!!
Hopefully the AMA is next! LEAKED FOOTAGE: Top Med Org’s Trans ‘Expert’ Claims Toddlers Have ‘Stable’ Sense Of Gender Identity www.dailywire.com/news/footage...
Definitely! But looks like Repugs want to live with preventable diseases!🤷♀️
The only way Killer Kennedy gets fired is if he disagrees to publicly with Dear Leader.
I believe these people should face capital punishment. I know that seems wrong but there needs to be trap consequences for mass death. Life in prison is not enough here.
Trump won’t fire him. There’s another solution that any of us could take upon ourselves. #sirhansirhan
I am at the point, where I know this will go nowhere. Her own party will sell her out before 9pm.
Trump is a fan of catchy slogans. How about this one? Trump the train wreck. Single handedly wrecking the economy, rolling over the constitution, and destroying industry along with workers, womens, and minority rights.
He can see, cellular damage with his x ray vision. In real time, he can see cellular activity occurring. THIS IS BAT SHIT
Who helped to confirm him??
Not Patty
Yes that’s correct.
Good. Now let’s seem some action behind those words. Otherwise they are meaningless. What legal steps is she helping initiate? What public organizing is she doing? Please tell me there is more than a damn tweet.
How can Americans be healthy if they take away our health care, vaccines, food safety, factual nutrition advice. We may have to start using leeches again.
Exactly what Bobby the Philandering Heroin Addict wants — leeches and push ups.
The CDC deserves utter destruction for its previous efforts to make Americans sick. CDC is a corrupt pawn of pharma. Our best chance to make CDC less harmful is to follow all RFK Jr's recommendations. If he wants her gone then GOOD RIDDANCE. Patty Murray takes money from pharma. She's corrupt.
Gosh, if only it was that easy.
"...and his little worm too!"
He must be jailed.
He never should have been confirmed for that position! Not a credible fiber in him!
Encourage your rep to file impeachment on him. He can be impeached.
I’m in Texas. It’s like screaming into the abyss. I still call, but I feel like a snowball in hell.
Uh huh. You think it will go anywhere with MAGA Mike in charge? He might convince Donold to fire Bobby Jr a long time before impeachment. Donold hates losers and loves to fire them. Not that a replacement would be any better.
It wouldn't start with him, but there are some Senate Rs publicly voicing doubts and concerns about RFKJ. If they get loud enough, and if word gets back to Trump that RFKJ is making him look bad... The odds aren't great, but they aren't zero.
Impeachment was the comment. No impeachment happens without Speaker MAGA Mike making it happen. And those senate Rs voted to confirm. Why should Donold care? He’s doing Project2025 perfectly.
Lol. Obviously we need to flip Congress to make it happen but people need to recognize that these cabinet posts can be impeached. It’s far better than the hysterical dooming that helps to suppress votes.
Impeachment is MEANINGLESS without 67 votes in the senate. Show the nth where that will happen. Sorry that facts are so inconvenient. Votes still count, without majority in the house there is not even impeachment. It’s step by step. So tired of the if it doesn’t happen NOW I won’t vote nonsense.
Christ almighty. Read first.
It would be good if the health committee during AND before RFK Jr did a better job improving the health of people. It was not everything was great before and now it is bad. For decades there have been issues with obesity rates, suicide, healthcare affordability, and that is just nationally.
Globally, diseases that can already be stopped like TB, malaria, and HIV/AIDS, were not being stopped. So, I think the health committee and RFK Jr need to do better. Too easy just to pin everything on one person.
Everyone with anything remotely contagious needs to start sneezing on these bastards. Every time they step out in public they need to be sneezed on. Or their food sneezed on. Let all the anti vaxxers in office get a good dose of what they claim they don't need protection from. 🤬🤬🤬
You know what's maddening is you know these same people will be first in line for an Ebola vaccination. They have had their vaccinations in private I bet .
Fire him yesterday
Georgia phones calls today. The Republicans cash our paychecks and use our health care and destroy our lives and the jobs of the future. They took an oath. Rep. Buddy Carter from GA lines are open. Jam them Washington, DC 20515 Phone: (202) 225-5831 buddycarter.house.gov
Now we’re talking. It’s time for us to do the firing.
Senator Cassidy should be leading this charge but he's too much of a coward to meet the moment.
It's nice to have a senator you're proud of most of the time.
Finally someone said that he should be fired from the democrats. I heard "he shouldn't do that" or "if he does this, it will hurt Americans" too many times. Enough is enough! Firing and removal is the only option. Asking for resignation will only result in a middle finger back.
Good
Finally! Dems should have been shouting this from the rooftops for months!!!!
She has
You are correct. Sen, Murray has been vocal. The rest of the Dem Senators, representatives and leadership need to follow her lead.
RFK Jr. is killing us. He MUST be fired. 🤬
By whom? By the one who put him there? Come on, now.
Donold loves to fire people when they are either a threat or an embarrassment. We shall see. Not that’s replacement would be any better.
He hasn't fired anyone he's appointed this term. He's afraid to, because of how bad it looked last time. He just shuffles them into other positions.
It suffices to fawn. Look at his cabinet meetings. A competition of who is the deepest sycophant. Stop praising him, and he will fire.
He hasn’t fired cabinet secretaries, but he sure has fired those under them. Who ARE ALSO APPOINTED. Social security head is what, #5 or 6. CDC head. The toadies on top are kiss asses. Those below who do the actual work are being fired.
Trump’s life was saved by paxlovid. Why is he gutting the agencies that saved him?
Because he doesn't believe that medical treatment saved him. He believes that his unique physique fought off the disease.
Run his wrinkly ass out on a rail.
Stop the slimy ignorant creepy guy
Fire his ass…
He must be remanded to The Hague for trial and execution.
Children will not be allowed to get the new Covid vax. Ever seen a kid sick with Covid? Ever seen a parent with Covid try and quarantine themself from their fam. This is ridiculous. It’s sickening.
Or resign. That would be done and dusted. He should resign.
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really she’s worried about he kickbacks
Sorry Patty. You are letting RFK, Jr. burn down everything - by not organizing and promoting the only thing that will work: mass action. Only a real mass action - EVERY SINGLE employee of the CDC walking out - will fix this.
Agree!
Stand up for truth? Stand up for science? Stand up for intelligence? Stand in the way of bold faced lies to feed conspiracy theories? Off with her head, courtesy of the RFK-Trump axis of ignorance.
Thanks to the three spineless jellyfish: Collins, Murkowski and Kennedy, it’s 10x harder to get rid of RatF*cKer, Jr than it was to approve him. These three deserve a special place in hell.
All talk. No action.
Give them hell senator Murray
Former heroin addict may of been a bad choice to head HHS.
America is being led by the unfit. eddmarv.medium.com/the-flawed-c... Yet, RFKjr makes healthcare decisions?!? apple.news/AJzpD4xTsSji... GOPolicies = trauma-inducing www.npr.org/2025/05/01/n... Fight! open.substack.com/pub/joneseli... @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social @msf.ca @kffhealthnews.org
Fire the whole incompetent regime!
Thank you, @murray.senate.gov ! 🙏🏼💙
When are you going to ask that the cdc pain guidelines be revoked?Based on fake science&patients are ending their lives daily because they are being ripped off their life saving medication. Congressional committee hearings needed w/ patients&our experts! Over 50 million rely on these medications
Where is Sen Cassidy? He can put a stop to all of this!
Fired by whom? The guy that's burning down the rest of our critical services, infrastructure, norms and mores?
But what are Republicans going to do?! They have the power to fix this. Senator Cassidy’s name should be tagged along with everything RFK does. He allowed this to happen. The question is, is he too big of a stooge to do anything about it?
Worst possible appointment…like most of Trump’s cabinet.
So fucking do something then FFS.
Then fucking do it. Don’t just bitch about it online. Get rid of him. There’s a ton of reserves there, they could arrest him and put him in Epstein cell. #pedofuhrer
Say it often. Say it loud
Fired as in burned at the stake.
Good for @murray.senate.gov. Where’s Schumer?
She's right. But, he never should have been approved for this position. Nor should he, and every single one of Trump's (and the Heritage Foundation's) nominees. This was the Heritage Foundation's design. Destroy the United States from within. Trump's words are always a projection.
RFK, Jr. is a roid junkie
Totally!!! Maybe he will have an aneurysm or heart attack.
One can only hope. VOTE.
Yup
Then introduce articles of impeachment
Bill Cassidy????
Empty threat. Donold is not going to fire him, nobody is going to fire him
Oh yes please!
Yes! Fire RFKjr. Then fire trump. The chaos in the US government won’t stop until trump and the trumpers are all fired/voted out/impeached/recalled or otherwise canned.
Just a reminder that RFK, like most of the Trump Cabinet, knowing LIED during his Confirmation Hearings RFK Should be fired before Americans DIE
Sorry. That’s not going to happen. He’s one of the biggest anal sphincter lickers in the cabinet.
Keep shouting for new elections We can get them Trumps been caught rigging an election You're gonna have to shout though because people are butt ugly It's not on the menu but we can threaten this restaurant with a yelp review if they don't make it for us anyway.
Keep shouting for new elections We can get them Trumps been caught rigging already You're gonna have to shout though because people are butt ugly It's not on the menu but we can threaten this restaurant with a yelp review if they don't make it for us anyway.
Who is going to fire him? Bill Cassidy? Right.
I want my GD Covid booster.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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He went to an island to test his theory we don't need measles vaccine.It failed!Yet Trump hired the former long time cocaine addict, unqualified nutcase. Trump has always liked having his addict buddies nearby!
An overly ripe apricot that fell off the tree and is now lying on the ground, rotting in the sun, slowly being eaten by yellowjackets.
Such an apt description!👏👏👏
Thank you for fighting for us 🙌🏼💫💪🏼
rfk jr, the Orbital cellulitis of the Kennedy family.
This is NOT about RFK, Jr. He did not just walk into the job. The GOP PUT HIM THERE. They're committing open sedition to The Constitution. They are not bound by oath.
Right there with you. So, what’s the plan, Pat?
RFK Jr. Is doing exactly what they wanted him to do. So that is why he will continue to remain. His job is soft murder. People need to wake up to the true horrific reality that is proven by the ballon markets. We the people have been deemed no longer needed, but a parasite to those with wealth.
So... who's going to fire him? tacostump? That's not going to happen, it's a cabinet member.
He should never have been confirmed…Such an embarrassment and disgrace.
He should have never been confirmed in the first place. Four Republican senators, who are also physicians, voted to confirm this AntiVaxx nut. 🙄🤦♂️
I completely agree with her. But how do we stop this? Does she have a plan?
Upon?
And soon!
As a hiring manager, I would have passed on any candidate who put live mice in a blender.
repulsive that republicuns confirmed this criminally insane unqualified serial adulterating maniac. Caroline tried to warn us but trump wanted him to have fun destroying our lives and harming our kids. WTF?
No. He and his band of merry morons should never have been confirmed in the first van place.
Sounds good. Watch DOJ investigate Murray tomorrow.
Truth!
we're in year one of the complete dismantling of America and in year two, we'll see it being sold off for parts
THIS is what I wanted to hear tonight!!!
Instead of firing, I think he should be institutionalized to protect the public.
Any comment from Sen. Bill "Deciding vote to confirm RFKJr" Cassidy?
apparently monarez enlisted his support in pushing back against the pressure she was getting from kennedy, and kennedy got pissy about it. though cassidy did apparently help(?) when called on, he's still showing no outward signs of a conscience as far as i've seen
And prosecuted for the lives lost ..kids with measles, for murder!!!
its TRUMP as much or more
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Economist George Staller "Its easy to turn an aquarium into fish soup. Very hard to go back." He's making fish soup for billionaires out of our economy, public health, rule of law, natural environment, civil society, and democracy. When the soup is gone, the only thing left to eat is billionaires.
Only one that can fire him wants this shit ..
Thank you Patty👏👏👏👏
Maybe Dems shouldn't have facilitated his confirmation. @schumer.senate.gov
And they voted to confirm him...
Not gonna happen unless he pisses off the ff.
They’re letting him do it.
But he will, because no Democrat politician is going to do anything. They're acting paralyzed.
People have had enough of RFK Jr's shenanigans. Please lock him up in a loony bin (where he belongs) before he does any more damages to the public.
That’s the point. Ignorant dark ages
Get rid of him. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER!!
Where is the protest to get the Cracker Barrel crackhead out of here!! He’s going to get people killed!
Caption: "I'm all out of rubber tubing, dammit! How am I supposed to get my next fix?"
He is subject to impeachmrht
Is he?
Yes. He is a civil officer and thus subject to impeachment. constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay...
Unfortunately someone being subject to impeachment and whether they will be impeachment is two different things, especially with MAGA controlling congress.
We flip Congress in 2026 it can happen. I’m in a safely blue state but I’m looking for races in other states to support so we can flip seats.
Failed impeachments can help the other side, so we'll need a massive flip of Congress and/or RFK doing something especially and blatantly illegal that even people who don't watch the news who think Trump is doing an okay job will agree that RFK has to go.
You don’t need a massive flip. Flipping is enough. The Dems’ dramatic overperformance in all of these special elections in red areas bodes well. Plus committees in a Dem majority Congress can hold lots and lots of hearings and basically gum up the works very effectively.
RFK Jr has displayed his incompetence for years. His own family will tell you he is dangerous. Republicans put him there intentionally to hurt Americans with his incompetence.
Also, release the Epstein files.
“there was widespread fear among former and present personnel that the void will be filled by RFK Jr.-style diehards and zealots” yup. it will.
so impeach the idiot
Hello. Republican House of Representatives. All impeachments are initiated in the House.
Well? Was Kennedy fired or just more bluster?
Let’s hope he develops an advanced case of Flesh eating disease with no cure. Ooooooohh, the thought is so delicious.
Screwworm is back because Elon and Trump gutted everything keeping stupid shit at bay
Patty is going to draft a sternly worded letter.
She should enlist Sen. Cassidy in this effort. He cast the deciding vote for RFK, Jr.'s confirmation after receiving assurances from Kennedy & the Trump administration that Kennedy would not dismantle the nation’s vaccine safety systems or take down government vaccine guidance. He should be pissed.
Apparently RFK Jr. is even worse than everyone thought, and everyone thought he had no qualifications at all. He is a public health risk and should be impeached. To hell with firing him… Congress… get rid of him NOW! #ImpeachRFKjr
Fire his disgusting ass. Do it, as Nike says, "just do it."
With such a strong statement, I’m sure they’ll stop. They must be petrified.
My Senator
I didn't realize RFK has shrapnel in his head from when his dad was shot.
He must be terminated.
finally someone fucking says it.
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He's doing exactly what he was hired to do: destroy medical research, so MAGA can feel better about being dumbshits popping ivermectin.
She's right
Fired by whom?
RFK never should have been confirmed or in a sane world, nominated.
He must be arrested.
He should have never been hired. And this needs to be hung around the necks of the Republicans. Along with every other severely unqualified individual in the cabinet.
Call me when Republicans are saying it.
Which Democrats voted to approve his appointment?? List, please.
RFK jr submerges in E.Coli-infested waters, thinks viruses are a 'phylum', thinks the cause of autism can be magically be found by Sept (it's a spectrum, there's more than one cause), that Riboflavin Vit B2 is a toxic additive, that wind turbines kill whales. He leaves road kill in his car for days.
Where’s Bill Cassidy?
So don’t let him Patty. Do what you gotta do, and get him fired.
You spelled “imprisoned “ wrong.
How do we get this done? Trump won't fire him. As far as I'm concerned, lying about medicine is an impeachable offense. Can't vaccine makers sue him for defamation?
Moderna's US headquarters are in Massachusetts. Pfizer's are in New York. Together they could force him to defend his lies in two state courts.
Yes, fired, that'll work, because were in totally normal times
Honestly short of states adopting federal agencies from the federal government are there other ways to preserve them? That federal government doesn't work, just make a new one.
All true, sadly, unless he crosses Trump somehow that won't happen
Nice idea but please don't hold your breath. They won't get rid of brain worm 🪱. Doesn't know a freakin' thing about anything medical and trust me I know. I'm a retired nurse of a 20 year career. A lot of people are gonna die on his watch if things don't go back to the way they were.
Hurry the fk up