After shakeups at the CDC and FDA, is Trump moving away from MAHA?

A wave of leadership departures at the CDC and FDA have left a vacuum at the top of the nation’s health agencies. Is the Trump administration distancing itself from MAHA?

There’s a glaring lack of permanent leadership at the country’s major health agencies. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has gone from one acting director to another. The commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration was ousted last month. The FDA’s second-in-command seat remains empty. And there has been no surgeon general for President Donald Trump’s entire second term.

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