Dr. Nicole Saphier seems on FOX Nation’s “Love Mother The Reside Present” at Fox Information Channel Studios on April 03, 2024 in New York Metropolis.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday stated he’ll nominate Dr. Nicole Saphier as the subsequent U.S. surgeon common after pulling his earlier choose, Dr. Casey Means, whose affirmation course of within the Senate stalled for months.
Saphier is a breast radiologist and was beforehand a Fox Information contributor. She is listed because the director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Most cancers Middle-Monmouth and the writer of a number of books. That features one ebook that critiques the U.S.’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, arguing that political agendas usually overshadowed scientific steerage.
“Nicole is a STAR doctor who has spent her profession guiding ladies dealing with breast most cancers by means of their prognosis and remedy whereas tirelessly advocating to extend early most cancers detection and prevention, whereas on the identical time working with women and men on all different types of most cancers diagnoses and coverings,” Trump wrote in a Reality Social put up on Thursday.
“She can also be an INCREDIBLE COMMUNICATOR, who makes sophisticated well being points extra simply understood by all People,” Trump continued.
Means was nominated on the suggestion of her shut ally Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Her nomination had stalled within the Senate for greater than two months over issues about her controversial stances on vaccines, contraception, pesticides and psychedelics.
Her brother, Calley Means, is a senior White Home adviser.
Trump on Thursday additionally blasted Sen. Invoice Cassidy, R-La., accusing him of standing in the way in which of Means’ nomination
“I nominated Casey, a robust MAHA Warrior, on the suggestion of Secretary Kennedy, who understands the MAHA Motion higher than anybody, with maybe the attainable exception of ME!” Trump wrote, including: “Casey, thanks in your service to our Nation!”
Correction: This story was up to date to right that Nicole Saphier is now not a Fox Information contributor. A earlier model misstated her present function.
