Nominates

• Die Trump-Administration hat eine neue Liste von Nominierten für die Leitung mehrerer Bundesgremien und Stiftungsfonds vorgestellt, darunter eines, das laut Ankündigungen des Weißen Hauses in diesem Jahr eine bedeutende kulturelle Preisverleihung beaufsichtigen wird. • Die Auswahl umfasst enge politische Verbündete und konservative Kommentatoren, was Trumps Muster bestätigt, Loyalisten in Aufsichtsfunktionen einzusetzen, die Zuschüsse, Stiftungsvermögen und öffentlichkeitswirksame Institutionen verwalten. • Demokraten und einige Beobachter für gute Regierungsführung haben Bedenken geäußert, dass die Ernennungen parteipolitische Kriterien in traditionell überparteiliche Programme einbringen könnten.

• President Donald Trump announced Dr. Jennifer Shuford, Texas' top public health official and infectious disease physician, as his nominee for CDC chief medical officer on Thursday via Truth Social. • Shuford oversaw the country's largest measles outbreak in 30 years; other nominees include Dr. Erica Schwartz as CDC director, Sean Slovenski as deputy director and COO, and Dr. Sara Brenner as senior counselor to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. • The appointments aim to reshape CDC leadership amid ongoing public health challenges in the US.

Schwartz was deputy surgeon general under Trump’s first administration and is a rear admiral in the US Coast GuardDonald Trump announced Thursday that he has selected Erica Schwartz to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), bringing to an end a months-long search for a permanent head of the troubled public health agency.Trump revealed his choice on Truth Social, saying: “I am pleased to announce the new leadership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is my Honor to nominate the incredibly talented Dr Erica Schwartz, MD, JD, MPH, as my Director of the CDC,” he wrote. “She is a STAR!” Continue reading...