Trump nominates Erica Schwartz to lead the CDC amid RFK Jr. health leadership turmoil

Trump nominated Erica Schwartz to serve as head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a move announced amid ongoing turmoil and leadership shakeups at the agency under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The development places a new administrator at the helm of the public health agency during a period of internal scrutiny and organizational change.

In a separate development, RFK Jr.'s health policies faced scrutiny on Capitol Hill as Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee cited policies enacted during his tenure as Health Secretary in response to rising measles cases. The confrontation underscores partisan disagreements over vaccine policy and the direction of public health leadership in the United States.