Key Republicans are abandoning Casey Means’  floundering surgeon general nomination

The nascent Make America Healthy Again movement got one of its biggest wins last spring: Casey Means was selected to be the nation’s top doctor.

But more than 10 months later, the controversial surgeon general pick has yet to assume the position …. Her nomination has stalled as some Republicans question her stance on vaccines, her medical credentials and her pushes against the medical establishment.

Means probably cannot afford to lose the support of a single Republican on the Senate Health committee, which has yet to schedule a vote to advance her nomination to the full Senate. The panel’s chairman, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), repeatedly pressed Means on her views on immunizations during a late February hearing — questions she largely dodged — and Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) afterward publicly said they still have questions.

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The stagnation sets up a test of the political power of the MAHA movement and its champion, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Means wrote the book widely considered the bible of the MAHA movement, “Good Energy” with her brother, Calley Means, a top White House adviser on health issues.

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