Senate votes to confirm Dr. Erica Schwartz as CDC director
Schwartz, a former deputy surgeon general, was nominated by Trump in April.
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Erica Schwartz as the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Schwartz was confirmed in a 51-44 vote that generally fell along party lines.
Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), who took over as acting CDC director in February, and become the first permanent director in about a year.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 15, 2026.
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