SENATORS MURRAY, KAINE, COLLEAGUES SOUND ALARM ON DECIMATION OF AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE, DEMAND SERIOUS SOLUTIONS TO MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH THREATS AS EBOLA EPIDEMIC WORSENS

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Sen. Patty Murray issued the following press release:

Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), led their colleagues in sending a letter (https://www.murray.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/FINAL-SIGNED-Letter-to-Secretary-Kennedy-on-Public-Health-Leadership-Vacancies-and-Global-Health-Outbreak-Responses.pdf) to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., calling on him to reverse HHS actions that have weakened the United States' public health infrastructure and threatened response to global health outbreaks. The senators' letter follows an abnormal hantavirus outbreak, and a growing Ebola epidemic....