Maine Senator Susan Collins said she has “areas of disagreement” with President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, making the moderate Republican’s position key to the vote’s outcome.
The CDC issued the frantic appeal on Tuesday after Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cut hundreds of employees from its workforce.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it would join a conference hosted by the World Health Organization in apparent defiance of President Donald Trump's executive order.
The meeting represented the outpouring of weeks of building tensions between the head of DOGE and President Donald Trump’s top political officials.
In his Congress speech, Trump made claims about Mexico’s extradition of drug lords, aid to Ukraine and immigration.