Democrat Senator John Fetterman approves of President-elect Trump’s choice of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator as long as he protects government programs.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Dr. Mehmet Oz as his pick to head the CMS, which falls under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Tuesday.
“If Dr. Oz is about protecting and preserving Medicare and Medicaid, I’m voting for the dude,” Fetterman tweeted.
Fetterman defeated Oz, a Republican, in Pennsylvania’s 2022 U.S. Senate race.
“Our politics are obviously different, and we do have a history, but I don’t have any bitterness,” Fetterman said, according to CNN’s Manu Raju.
“I’m going to be very, very clear if Dr. Oz agrees to protect and preserve Medicaid and Medicare, I’m absolutely going to vote for the dude,” he told me. “That’s the most important thing for me. Our politics are obviously different, and we do have a history, but I don’t have any bitterness. I don’t hold anything against him. As long as he’s willing to protect and preserve Medicaid and Medicare, I’m voting for the dude.”
“America is facing a Healthcare Crisis, and there may be no Physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again,” Trump said in a statement announcing Oz. “Dr. Oz will work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake.”
Oz said in a post on X that he is “honored” by Trump’s nomination.
“I look forward to serving my country to Make America Healthy Again under the leadership of HHS Secretary @RobertKennedyJr,” he noted.
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