White House weighing plan to replace Azar
Source: Politico
White House officials are weighing a plan to replace Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, according to four people familiar with the discussions.
Among the names on the short list to replace Azar are White House coronavirus coordinator Deborah Birx, Medicare chief Seema Verma and deputy HHS Secretary Eric Hargan, said the four people familiar with the talks.
Senior officials long-standing frustrations with the health chief have mounted during the pressure-packed response to the Covid-19 outbreak, with White House aides angry this week about Azars handling of the ouster of vaccine expert Rick Bright. At a recent task force meeting, Azar assured Vice President Mike Pence that Brights move to the National Institutes of Health was a promotion only for Bright and his lawyers to release a statement that he would soon file a whistleblower complaint against HHS leadership, blindsiding White House officials, according to three officials familiar with the meeting.
White House officials also have blamed Azar for long-running turmoil at the health department and a series of media reports that portrayed him as urging Trump to act on the Covid-19 outbreak in January, only for the president and his aides to disregard Azars warnings as alarmist. Azar has denied the reports, saying that Trump never once rejected, turned down or dismissed a recommendation of his or the task forces.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/25/white-house-replace-alex-azar-208151
sandensea
(21,639 posts)Like those African dictators that, besides being president, might also be ministers of Education, Transportation, Economization, and 'without portfolio'.
And of course, sucks at all of them.
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)I can just see King Lysol appointing either his horse or Ivanka to be Secretary of HHS.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)master of none can handle that job with help from his thieving cronies.
mpcamb
(2,871 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)According to his golf courses latest filing with Bedminster Township to justify its farmland assessment tax break, Trump maintains eight goats and farms hay on 113.2 acres. Another 70.6 acres of adjacent woods are also set aside as agricultural, so that a total of 183.8 of the golf resorts 514 acres are taxed at a much lower rate ― just over $6 an acre, rather than $462.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-golf-goats_n_5d546ebce4b08385506719f1?ri18n=true
Since he despises pets, I don't think he'll have any association with an animal he can't exploit for money.
Warpy
(111,277 posts)I figured he was on his way out. Big Dummy doesn't generally mind incompetence.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,155 posts)Defund the World Health Organization and fire the Secretary of Health and H.S. in the middle of a hundred-year's global pandemic.
All cuz you got youse widdle fee-fees hurt!
What a pathetic, sniveling man-baby Trump is!
thenelm1
(854 posts)rickford66
(5,524 posts)Nasruddin
(754 posts)> Among the names on the short list to replace Azar are White House coronavirus coordinator Deborah Birx ...
That explains - a lot.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)He's a garbage person, but we're now gonna see Trump try to scapegoat him.
Pence should pay attention. He's next in line.
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)madeup64
(257 posts)Remember that Azar lobbied the White House for a pretty significant chunk of funds (can't recall total offhand) to handle the response to Coronavirus and he was berated by the White House and they only gave him a fraction. Perhaps Trump is mad that this story leaked probably by Azar or someone close to Azar. The request was to buy PPE and fund vaccine research among other things. Azar was actually doing his job correctly. That was definitely not a good headline for Trump.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Among the names on the short list to replace Azar are White House coronavirus coordinator Deborah Birx, Medicare chief Seema Verma and deputy HHS Secretary Eric Hargan, said the four people familiar with the talks.
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)Has always been the motive of this administration.
Toe the line or youre ousted.
Roy Rolling
(6,918 posts)Doctor Oz
Doctor Phil
Removed from List
Doctor Who
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)The type that will kiss his enormous ass.
raccoon
(31,111 posts)Replace Trump.
If I can dream...