Nominates

• Pemerintahan Trump mengumumkan daftar calon baru untuk memimpin beberapa dewan federal dan dana perwalian, termasuk satu yang akan mengawasi upacara penghargaan budaya utama tahun ini, menurut pengumuman dari White House. • Pilihan tersebut mencakup sekutu politik dekat dan komentator konservatif, memperkuat pola Trump dalam menempatkan loyalis pada peran pengawasan yang mengelola hibah, dana abadi, dan lembaga-lembaga publik. • Partai Demokrat dan beberapa pengawas tata kelola pemerintahan yang baik telah menyuarakan kekhawatiran bahwa penunjukan ini dapat menyuntikkan kriteria partisan ke dalam program-program yang secara tradisional bersifat nonpartisan.

• 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...