Hill March 6, 2025
Marty Makary, a career surgeon and President Trump’s nominee to run the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), faced senators in his confirmation hearing on Thursday, aligning himself with the Make America Healthy Again agenda but stopping short of outright endorsing some recent, controversial decisions.
Makary’s hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, like the hearing for Jay Bhattacharya for the National Institutes of Health the day before, was relatively tame, especially compared to the confirmation process of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.
A public policy researcher and professor at Johns Hopkins University, Makary was a prominent skeptic of COVID-19 lockdowns and frequently appeared on Fox News during the pandemic. He leaned on...
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