CDC Director Mandy Cohen unscathed in her first congressional testimony
House Republicans struggled to pin the new CDC director down on what they see as the agency's missteps.
WASHINGTON — House Republicans sought Thursday to hammer the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s coronavirus record but struggled to pin the relatively new director down on agency missteps.
Several of the GOP lawmakers who questioned Mandy Cohen, CDC director since July, are pushing for the agency to narrow its scope and authorities in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. They hope to gut a data program and slash HIV funds in the 2024 budget, but they also asked questions about the breadth of the agency’s portfolio outside of communicable diseases.
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