Trump picks former congressman Dave Weldon of Florida to lead CDC

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Even before Trump announced he planned to nominate Kennedy to lead HHS, the CDC was under intense scrutiny by conservatives in Congress and think tanks about its scope and mission.
33% : The CDC is among the federal health agencies whose vaccine work has come under fire from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the longtime anti-vaccine activist whom Trump has picked to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC's parent agency.
23% : Trump called Weldon a "respected conservative leader on fiscal and social issues" who had worked for "Accountability on HHS and CDC Policy and Budgeting."
17% : Trump said Weldon would restore trust in the CDC and federal health agencies, accusing them of engaging in "censorship, data manipulation, and misinformation.
14% : " Trump added: "Given the current Chronic Health Crisis in our Country, the CDC must step up and correct past errors to focus on the Prevention of Disease.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.