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Dr. Erica Schwartz is Trump's third CDC director nominee this term — his first withdrew, his second was fired by RFK Jr. in under a month. At her confirmation hearing, she left Democrats aghast with evasive answers on vaccines and political interference. When Sen. Maggie Hassan asked if she'd defy an RFK Jr. order to stop promoting the flu vaccine mid-outbreak, something that already happened, Schwartz dodged, claiming she "doesn't speak in hypotheticals." Sen. Bernie Sanders got similarly vague answers on removing CDC content falsely linking vaccines to autism.