CDC Scientists Aren’t Undermining Trump, Agency’s Chief Says
Robert Redfield, director of the CDC, listens during a Senate hearing in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 16.
Photographer: Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times/Bloomberg
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Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aren’t trying to undermine President Donald Trump and don’t have “deep state ulterior motives,” Director Robert Redfield told a Senate committee Wednesday.
Redfield made those comments in response to a Facebook video Sunday where top HHS spokesman Michael Caputo claimed the CDC harbored a “resistance unit” meant to undermine the president. “There are scientists working for this government who do not want America to get better,” Caputo said in the video.