Trump pulls Casey Means' nomination as surgeon general, naming new pick

Washington — President Trump connected Thursday said helium is nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier to beryllium the adjacent U.S. surgeon general, replacing his information of Casey Means, whose bid has stalled successful the Senate.

The president announced the shuffle successful a brace of posts connected Truth Social. In the first, he blamed Sen. Bill Cassidy for Means' information stalling successful the aftermath of her confirmation proceeding successful February, saying the Louisiana Republican "has stood successful the way" of his pick.

"I nominated Casey, a beardown MAHA Warrior, astatine the proposal of Secretary Kennedy, who understands the MAHA Movement amended than anyone, with possibly the imaginable objection of ME!" helium wrote. "Nevertheless, contempt Senator Cassidy's intransigence and governmental games, Casey volition proceed to combat for MAHA connected the galore important Health issues facing our Country."

Minutes later, Mr. Trump said he's nominating Saphier, a radiologist and manager of bosom imaging astatine Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Monmouth. She is besides a Fox News contributor, and hosts a wellness and wellness podcast called "Wellness Unmasked." 

"Nicole is simply a STAR doc who has spent her vocation guiding women facing bosom crab done their diagnosis and attraction portion tirelessly advocating to summation aboriginal crab detection and prevention, portion astatine the aforesaid clip moving with men and women connected each different forms of crab diagnoses and treatments," the president wrote. "She is besides an INCREDIBLE COMMUNICATOR, who makes analyzable wellness issues much easy understood by each Americans."

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