Marty Makary and Jay Bhattacharya confirmed by Senate as FDA commissioner and NIH director Trump’s health team is taking shape as key picks advance

https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/25/marty-makary-fda-jay-bhattacharya-nih-senate-votes/?utm_campaign=breaking_news&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--Tw8Qvp6s0Z_cqfF5mqrf8JPScm3twSgTqgramGsoSlbAUgoNrsGnP1ZfMfpUkOHo9VAjjlguRUv-Ty1j3B0SlEVRPNQ&_hsmi=353592232&utm_content=353592232&utm_source=hs_email The Senate voted largely along party lines Tuesday to confirm Marty Makary as the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health. The two Trump picks will now assume leadership of agencies that have been pummeled by workforce cuts and are lagging in morale.