The committee vote was a first, as the position of CDC director didn’t need confirmation until the requirement was added in the 2023 omnibus. Monarez was seen as a less controversial pick after the Trump administration pulled the nomination of former Rep.

Monarez is the first CDC director nominee to require a Senate confirmation after Congress passed a law requiring it in 2022. MORE: Experts

A U.S. Senate committee has approved Susan Monarez to be President Donald Trump’s director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention