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Trump withdraws nomination of Casey Means for US surgeon general

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Donald Trump on Thursday pulled his nominee for US surgeon general, Casey Means, and announced a potential replacement. The US president said that Means will continue to fight for the so-called Make America Healthy Again (Maha) movement spearheaded by health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr . He stated this was despite opposition from Bill Cassidy, the Republican US senator of Louisiana, to Means’s nomination. “Despite Senator Cassidy’s intransigence and political games, Casey will continue to fight for MAHA on the many important Health issues facing our Country,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. Trump then said he was instead nominating radiologist and Fox News contributor Dr Nicole Saphier for the post of US surgeon general. After being nominated last May, Means’s nomination had been stalled since a bruising February confirmation hearing, where senators from both parties questioned her stance on vaccines and her decision to abandon her surgical residency.…

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