The Senate confirmed two health candidates for President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening with a victory in the “to bring America’s health back to health” movement, primarily along the party line.
Senator vote 53-47 Verify that Jay Bhattacharya is heading the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Senate approved the appointment of Marty McCurry, who heads the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), during a vote of 56 to 44. Democrats Maggie Hassan, Jeanne and Jeanne Shaheen and Democrat Sen. Whip Dick Durbin have confirmed McCurry along with Senators. (Related: Trump administration cancels billions of Covid spending)
Bhattacharya and Makary will oversee the department under the Ministry of Health’s Secretary of Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
WASHINGTON, DC – March 5: President Donald Trump’s candidate to become Director of the National Institutes of Health, Jayanta Bhatacharya will speak at a confirmation hearing in DC on March 5, 2025 before Senator Capitol Hill Senate Committee. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Bhatacharya, a professor of health policy at Stanford University School of Medicine, highlighted five priorities at the confirmation hearing. It focuses on chronic diseases. Addressing the crisis of reproducibility in science. Establish a culture of freedom of speech and diversity of perspectives. A recommendation for innovative breakthroughs to progressive progress by powerful incumbent scientists. Introduces regulations for dangerous research that poses a pandemic risk.
“I love NIH, but post-pandemic biomedical sciences in America are at a crossroads,” Batacharya said at a confirmation hearing on March 5.
“NIH can resolve the current crisis of scientific data reliability, and under my leadership, if confirmed, it will,” added Bhattacharya.
Bhattacharya cleared the Senate Aid Committee on March 13, along the party line, during a vote of 12 to 11.
“NIH needs leaders who restore confidence in American public health agencies and find an equitable solution to Americans’ most challenging health issues,” Sen. Bill Cassidy, chairman of the Senate Aid Committee, said in a statement. “Dr. Bhatacharya is ready to take this responsibility and implement President Trump’s vision to make America healthy again.”
Bhattacharya co-written The Great Barrington Declarationwhich insisted on protecting vulnerable groups rather than implementing mass lockdowns to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
Despite being the president, NIH continues to fund more than $1 billion in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs Presidential Order The DCNF was the first to report that the federal government is requesting that DEI activities be terminated.
Martin McCurry is preparing to testify before the Senate on health, education, labor and pensions regarding the hearing appointed as a Food and Drug Dispatch (FDA) Commissioner in Capitol Hill, Washington, DC on March 6, 2025 (Photo: Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP)
McCurry, Professor of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Pancreatic Surgeon; It was criticized FDA leaders under President Joe Biden in OP-ED from 2021 have argued that “new leaders at the FDA will not prevent them from changing the culture of the institution and promoting scientific advancement.”
McCurry cleared the Senate Aid Committee during the 14-9 vote on March 13th.
“We now have a generational opportunity for American healthcare,” McCurry said at a March 6 confirmation hearing. “With President Trump and [Health and Human Services] Secretary Kennedy’s focus on healthy foods is driving the grassroots movement in America. Childhood obesity is not a problem of willpower, and the rise of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease is not genetic. We should be, and we evaluate foods that affect our health. ”
McCurry testified in March 2023 at a subcommittee on the house on a coronavirus crisis hearing, where he said COVID-19 was “easy” born at the Wuhan Virus Institute.
Former Planning Parents President Leena Wen praised Batacharya and McCurry op-ed On March 11, the Washington Post told Senate Democrats not to “reflexively oppose” the two health candidates.
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