Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said a gay leader at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who resigned last week in protest of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had "no business being in government" due to the "lifestyle" he led.

Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, was among the four CDC leaders who resigned last week, saying in their resignations that the changes under Kennedy were preventing them from carrying out the agency's public health mission.

"One of the guys that is the biggest proponent of doing all this is the guy who describes the risky behavior that he and his lifestyle involve," Paul said when asked about the exodus in CDC........

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