U.S. President Donald Trump successful the Cabinet Room of the White House connected Aug. 26, 2025 successful Washington, D.C.
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President Donald Trump connected Monday called connected pharmaceutical companies to "justify the success" of their Covid drugs days aft the Food and Drug Administration set caller limits connected who tin person vaccines for the virus.
"It is precise important that the Drug Companies warrant the occurrence of their assorted Covid Drugs. Many radical deliberation they are a occurrence that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree!" Trump wrote successful a Truth Social post.
The FDA connected Wednesday approved the latest circular of Covid vaccines, but lone for radical astatine higher hazard of terrible illness.
The president's comments besides travel days aft he fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez aft she refused to resign. Four different apical wellness officials astatine the CDC besides announced they were quitting the bureau past week, including Demetre Daskalakis, manager of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
"With CDC being ripped isolated implicit this question, I privation the answer, and I privation it NOW," Trump said successful the post. "I person been shown accusation from Pfizer, and others, that is extraordinary, but they ne'er look to amusement those results to the public. Why not???"
The enactment upheaval astatine the CDC follows a bid of measures by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to overhaul national wellness agencies and alteration U.S. immunization policies. He has instituted wide firings, gutted a cardinal authorities vaccine sheet and canceled studies connected mRNA changeable technology.
In his societal media post, Trump urged cause companies to beryllium much transparent astir their results to "clear up this MESS."
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