If confirmed, Makary would run one of the nation's leading health agencies, overseeing the regulation of food and drugs.

Marty Makary, Trump’s pick for FDA commissioner, testifies before the Senate health committee on Thursday. In 2021, Marty Makary took to Fox News and blasted the Food and Drug Administration. In an op-ed, he called for an overhaul of leadership and culture at the agency that he said was “broken” and “mired in politics and red tape.”

Senators asked Makary about the FDA’s decision to cancel a scheduled meeting of its outside committee of vaccine experts to discuss the design of this year’s influenza vaccine