The Senate hearing for President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Casey Means, is postponed as the nominee goes into labor with her first child, in keeping with a Senate Health, Education Labor and Pension Committee spokesperson and an individual acquainted with Means.
As it was deliberate, Means can be the first nominee to ever seem nearly earlier than the HELP committee, owing to her being pregnant.
The hearing was scheduled two days after Means’ due date, per the individual acquainted.
Trump nominated Means, creator of the best-selling “Good Energy” and an avatar of the ‘Make American Healthy Again’ motion, this May after withdrawing the nomination of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat.
Means, by her ebook, weblog and talking appearances, has championed holistic well being with a deal with entire and pure meals, train, and curbing pharmaceutical prescriptions for power illnesses.
The Stanford Medicine-trained physician has additionally urged that psychedelics such as psilocybin may be helpful for psychological well being, decried broad pesticide use and warned in opposition to long-term use of hormonal contraception.
It isn’t clear but when the hearing will probably be rescheduled.