President Donald Trump on Thursday withdrew Casey Means’s nomination for surgeon general.
The announcement came after nearly 11 months of Senate inaction on the nomination, as Senate health committee members Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AL) would not say whether they would vote for her.
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On Truth Social, Trump blamed Cassidy for having “stood in the way,” of Means’s nomination, calling him a “very disloyal person.”
In a separate post on Truth Social, Trump said that he would nominate Nicole Saphier, a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and longtime Fox News medical contributor, to serve as the nation’s chief doctor.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed the new pick, saying in a post on X that Saphier is “a long-time warrior for the MAHA movement” whose experience “is essential as we take on the chronic disease epidemic.”
