{"id":77615,"date":"2026-08-19T11:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/trump-to-nominate-dr-heidi-overton-as-next-fda-commissioner\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:54:48","slug":"trump-to-nominate-dr-heidi-overton-as-next-fda-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/trump-to-nominate-dr-heidi-overton-as-next-fda-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to nominate Dr Heidi Overton as next FDA commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he is nominating Heidi Overton, deputy assistant for domestic policy, as the next FDA commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>Overton, a physician, is known for her pro-life views and Trump said she has been a &#8220;ROCKSTAR&#8221; in his administration so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dr. Overton will continue putting AMERICA FIRST, and creating a HEALTHY AMERICA,&#8221; Trump said in a Truth Social post.<\/p>\n<p><i>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he is nominating Heidi Overton, deputy assistant for domestic policy, as the next FDA commissioner. Overton, a physician, is known for her pro-life views and Trump said she has been a &#8220;ROCKSTAR&#8221; in his administration so far. &#8220;Dr. Overton will continue putting AMERICA FIRST, and creating a HEALTHY AMERICA,&#8221; &#8230; <a title=\"Trump to nominate Dr Heidi Overton as next FDA commissioner\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/trump-to-nominate-dr-heidi-overton-as-next-fda-commissioner\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump to nominate Dr Heidi Overton as next FDA commissioner\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77615","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=77615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}