Weldon was told last night that his nomination was being withdrawn, another Trump administration official said. The White House decided to pull Weldon’s nomination when it became clear that he would not have the votes to be favorably reported out of committee because of his past controversial comments about vaccines, the official said.

The White House is pulling President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dave Weldon, Axios reported on Thursday just as the nominee was set to appear before the U.

Employees were told to leave the department's Washington, D.C., headquarters ahead of the layoffs and one-day building closure.

A day after the Department of Education made deep cuts expected to gut the agency, Trump said many of them weren't doing much work anyway.