by Adam Pack
The Senate confirmed two candidates for the health of President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening, mainly along the party, in the winning of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement.
Senators he voted 53-47 to confirm Jay Bhattacharya to manage the National Institutes of Health (Nih). The Senate approved the nomination of Marta Mackary to lead the Food and Drug administration (FDA) when voting in the amount of 56 to 44. Democratic New Hampshire Sens. Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen and the Democratic Senate Whip Dick Durbin combined the Republican Senate to confirm Makary.
Bhattachary and Makary will supervise departments under the secretary of the Health and Social Welfare Department Robert F. Kennedy Jr. They said that they were involved in cooperation with him in order to implement the priorities of the policy “healthy America” ​​again.
Bhattacharya, a professor of health policy at Stanford University School of Medicine, emphasized five priorities during interrogation in confirmation: focusing on chronic disease; Solving a crisis of playback in science; establishing a culture of freedom of speech and a variety of points of view; Recommending groundbreaking breakthroughs in the field of gradual progress by powerful current scientists; and introduction of risky tests that are a risk of pandemic.
“I love Nih, but postpandemic, American biomedical teachings are at a crossroads,” Bhattacharya said during the interrogation confirming March 5. “23% not much or there is no certainty, there is not much trust.”
“Nih may and must solve the current crisis of reliability of scientific data, and under my leadership, if it is confirmed, he will do it” – added Bhattacharya.
Bhattacharya cleaned the Senate Aid Commission while voting in the amount of 12 to 11, along the party, on March 13.
“Nih needs a leader who will restore American trust in public health institutions and find objective solutions for the most difficult health problems of Americans,” said Senator Louisian Bill Cassidy, chairman of the Senate Assistance Committee in a statement. “Dr. Bhattacharya is ready to take on this responsibility and implement the vision of President Trump so that America would be healthy again.”
Bhattacharya is a co -author Declaration of the Great Barringtonwhich he argued for the protection of sensitive populations, not the implementation of mass blockades to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
Nih still fund Over a billion dollars of diversity, justice and integration programs (Dei), despite the president executive order DCNF for the first time informed that the federal government required Dei.
Makary, professor Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and pancreatic surgeon, criticized FDA leadership under the leadership of President Joe Biden in OP-ED from 2021, arguing for “fresh leadership in the FDA to change culture in the agency and promotion of scientific development, and do not hinder it.”
Makary cleared the Senate Aid Commission during voting from 14 to 9 on March 13.
“We now have a generational opportunity in American healthcare,” Makary said during the interrogation of confirmation on March 6. “President Trump and [Health and Human Services] The concentration of secretary Kennedy on healthy food enlivened the bottom -up movement in America. Childhood obesity is not a problem of willpower, and the development of the early beginning of Alzheimer is not genetic-we should be and we will assess food affecting our health. “
Makary he testified During the House Select on the Coronavirus Crisis subcommittee in March 2023, where he said it was “no brainer”, that Covid-19 came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The former president of the planned Parenthood, Leanda Wen, praised Bhattacharya and Makary in on ED For Washington Post on March 11, saying the Senate to the democrats, not to “reflexively oppose” two nominees.
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Adam Pack is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Dr. Jay Bhattacharya” Dream. Rand Paul.
