Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary is set to leave his post on Tuesday, making him the latest in the line of Trump health officials to be ousted this term.
Makary, previously a Johns Hopkins University professor of surgery, has been at the center of a number of conflicts in recent weeks, including over vaping, abortion, and drug policy. He is set to resign on Tuesday, according to multiple reports citing agency sources. It had been reported that President Donald Trump was moving to fire him.
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The news broke before Makary was scheduled to testify in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday morning to defend the president’s 2027 budget proposal for his agency.
The various headaches for the administration coming from the FDA have been a sore spot for the Department of Health and Human Services and the White House, as GOP advisers have been reshaping the party’s healthcare
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