White House slams ex-official for saying 'pregnant people' instead of 'pregnant women' in resignation mail
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Karoline Leavitt Photograph: (AFP)
The official, Dr Demetre Daskalakis, the former director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, used the phrase "pregnant people" and not "pregnant women" in his resignation letter on August 27.
The White House slammed a former official on Thursday (August 28) for his gender-neutral vocabulary. The official, Dr Demetre Daskalakis, the former director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, used the phrase "pregnant people" and not "pregnant women" in his resignation letter on August 27.
He wrote that “the recent change in the adult and children’s immunization schedule threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people.” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, "He identifies pregnant women as pregnant people. So that’s not someone who we want in this administration anyway. So if people are not aligned with the president’s vision and the secretary’s vision to make our country healthy again, then we will gladly show them the door."
Moments later, Leavitt was pressed on whether officials pushing back privately on the president’s agenda should fear losing their jobs.
“I think if you’re doing your job well, and if you are executing on the vision and the promises that the president made to the public who elected him back to this office, that you should have no fear about your job. Just do your job,” she said.
Meanwhile, during the press conference, Leavitt avoided a reporter’s question asking why Donald Trump has yet to acknowledge the shooting at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta earlier this month. Instead, she recounts the response from health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.
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“We absolutely were very much aware of that shooting, the secretary of health and human services put out a statement immediately. He was in touch with the CDC, and he actually traveled to Georgia to assess the situation, and to mourn with the people who work in that building there,” she said.
