Azar's Power Grab

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Trump's health secretary asserts control over all new rules

Azar's chief of staff said the changes were simply a "housekeeping matter."

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Heath and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar wrote a memo this week giving him authority over all new rules and banning any of the health agencies, including the FDA, from signing any new rules "regarding the nation’s foods, medicines, medical devices and other products,"

Unless you want to die, this will not be good news.

The story further underscores reporting that health and scientific agencies are undergoing a deep politicization as the Trump administration races to develop a coronavirus vaccine, as Axios' Caitlin Owens has reported. Peter Lurie, a former associate commissioner of the FDA, told the Times that the Azar memo amounted to a "power grab."

Of course, those who Trust in Trump will be like, "Meh, we need to cut through the red tape anyway. The rest of us, however....