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Trump picks Dr. Heidi Overton for top FDA job
The medical doctor and White House aide has backed Trump’s drug pricing and vaccine initiatives, and would need Senate confirmation.
- On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced he picked Dr. Heidi Overton, a White House medical aide and deputy director of domestic policy, to lead the Food and Drug Administration. Overton previously served as chief policy officer at the America First Policy Institute.
- Trump described Overton as a "rockstar" on Truth Social, stating she would deliver on his priorities of faster cures, innovation, and lower drug prices while advancing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" movement.
- In recent months, Overton appeared with the president to unveil "most favored nation" deals to lower drug prices and a controversial order seeking to split the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three separate immunizations.
- Confirming Overton requires approval from the narrowly Republican-led Senate, where she will face scrutiny from the Senate health committee. If confirmed, she would be positioned to roll back FDA rules that made abortion pills more accessible.
- Any new commissioner must balance competing priorities between Trump's fixations and traditional Republican interests. Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, who chairs the Senate health committee, has already voiced criticism regarding Trump's recent actions to sow doubt in vaccinations.
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Trump taps White House adviser Overton to lead FDA
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday named White House policy aide Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration months after the previous chief quit, writing online that she would push his "America First" policies.
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Trump picks Dr. Heidi Overton, a top White House aide, to lead FDA
President Donald Trump has picked Dr. Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration. Overton is a deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council and a trusted figure in the administration.
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