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Uncle Joe

(65,478 posts)
Wed May 13, 2026, 11:54 AM 7 hrs ago

FDA Chief Pushed Out in Latest Sign of Public Health Chaos Under RFK Jr.



Trump's commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Martin Makary, has resigned. During Makary's 13-month tenure, he attempted to split the difference between Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again agenda and a more traditional approach to regulation, ultimately angering both camps. Shortly before his resignation, Makary had drawn the ire of President Trump for attempting to block the approval of fruit-flavored vapes, and anti-abortion groups for not placing harsher restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone. But even before Makary took the helm, mass layoffs and the loss of scientific expertise had already thrown the FDA, which has oversight powers extending to more than a fifth of the U.S. economy, in turmoil.
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FDA Chief Pushed Out in Latest Sign of Public Health Chaos Under RFK Jr. (Original Post) Uncle Joe 7 hrs ago OP
People seem to forget... GiqueCee 3 hrs ago #1

GiqueCee

(4,682 posts)
1. People seem to forget...
Wed May 13, 2026, 03:57 PM
3 hrs ago

... that when Trump picked The Shame of the Kennedy Clan to run HHS, he said, with his bare face hangin' out, that he was going to "Let him run wild."
See, MAGAts? What you see is what you get when you vote for a traitor whose mission is to destroy American from within. And you fuckin' assholes are helping him do it.

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