{"id":72872,"date":"2026-04-30T13:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/trump-withdraws-nomination-of-casey-means-for-us-surgeon-general\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:03:02","slug":"trump-withdraws-nomination-of-casey-means-for-us-surgeon-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/trump-withdraws-nomination-of-casey-means-for-us-surgeon-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump withdraws nomination of Casey Means for US surgeon general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president said he was instead nominating radiologist and Fox News contributor Dr Nicole Saphier for the post<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Thursday pulled his nominee for US surgeon general, Casey Means, and announced a potential replacement.<\/p>\n<p>The US president said that Means will continue to fight for the so-called Make America Healthy Again (Maha) movement spearheaded by health secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\">Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a>. He stated this was despite opposition from Bill Cassidy, the Republican US senator of Louisiana, to Means\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/30\/trump-withdraws-nomination-casey-means\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president said he was instead nominating radiologist and Fox News contributor Dr Nicole Saphier for the post Sign up for the Breaking News US email Donald Trump on Thursday pulled his nominee for US surgeon general, Casey Means, and announced a potential replacement. The US president said that Means will continue to fight for &#8230; <a title=\"Trump withdraws nomination of Casey Means for US surgeon general\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/trump-withdraws-nomination-of-casey-means-for-us-surgeon-general\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump withdraws nomination of Casey Means for US surgeon general\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}