Donald Trump Picks Heidi Overton to Oversee the FDA
The White House is betting on an internal policy wonk to run the massive federal agency that decides what we eat and ingest.
Heidi Overton is stepping out from the shadows of the White House policy wing to potentially lead the FDA. If you think the agency just deals with food labels, you're missing the forest for the trees—it's 18,000 employees handling everything from complex medical devices and prescription drugs to your morning nicotine fix.
This is basically the ultimate pivot from behind-the-scenes policy advising to being the person in the hot seat for literally every drug and snack recall in the country. She's currently deep in the administrative weeds, which is the perfect training for an agency that is essentially a giant, slow-moving bureaucratic machine.
The person regulating the entire US food supply is now just a paper-pusher promotion away.
Source: NPR
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