Former Planned Parenthood president Leana Wen offered robust praise for two of President Trump’s top health agency head picks — Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Marty Makary — in a Washington Post op-ed Tuesday.
Trump nominated Makary to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Both testified in front of the Senate in early March as part of their confirmation processes. Wen said she was “struck by how normal the candidates were.”
Contrasting the pair with newly minted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who she said “refused to disavow anti-vaccine conspiracy theories” in his confirmation hearing, Wen heaped praise onto the two doctors. (RELATED: RFK Jr. Brought Republicans A New Wave Of Voters — Can They Keep Them?)
“These candidates grounded their answers in facts and…
