Marty Makary, Trump’s pick for FDA commissioner, testifies before the Senate health committee on Thursday. In 2021, Marty Makary took to Fox News and blasted the Food and Drug Administration. In an op-ed, he called for an overhaul of leadership and culture at the agency that he said was “broken” and “mired in politics and red tape.”

Marty Makary, MD, MPH, President Trump's nominee for FDA commissioner, seems likely to be a lock for the position if Thursday's nomination hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee is any indication.

Marty Makary, a career surgeon and President Trump’s nominee to run the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), faced senators in his confirmation hearing on Thursday, aligning himself with the Make