It may not have been in the cards for Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve in the U.S. Senate — and, to be fair, Democratic Senator John Fetterman’s tenure has been rather entertaining at times — but he will soon be serving in the second Trump administration.
On Tuesday, following his announcement of Howard Lutnick to head up the Commerce Department, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he has tapped Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator in his administration.
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The current holder of that position is Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, who assumed the role in May of 2021, following a brief tenure by Elizabeth Richter as the acting administrator in the opening months of the Biden administration. In Trump’s prior term, Seema Verma served in the role…
