The Senate has been working this week to confirm more of President Donald Trump’s nominees essential to his agenda on health care and finance. Those nominees, though less high-profile than Cabinet members, will play leading roles in the Trump administration.
The week saw the confirmation of two nominees important to Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda—Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health and Dr. Marty Makary to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
Bhattacharya, a Stanford University professor who rose to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic as an opponent of lockdown measures, was confirmed by a 53-to-47 party-line vote.
Throughout the Senate confirmation process, Bhattacharya pledged to increase transparency within the NIH, allow for more dissent, and regulate risky biomedical research that could lead to…
