The FDA commissioner who President Trump pressured for months to approve a COVID-19 vaccine before the 2020 election thinks that the agency should be independent.
Such as things like administrators with Ethics and a Backbone?
Yeah, you won’t see a lot of that in the GQP.
More safeguards needed against electing a lunatic.
And speaking of Trump, lets not help turn MTG into the next Trump:
Coverage of her last week was a bit excessive. Yeah, she was news, but there were wayyyy too many articles on her.
There are MANY departments that should not be at the whim of the President. Either hiring/firing heads or interfering with policies from the departments.
This would have been useful information six months ago. Thanks, former Trump administration official!
Beat me to it. Hahn was an ass-kissing pushover.
As someone posted yesterday on another thread (wish I could remember who), if you are screwed either way, then just do the right thing.
Yup, there’s a lot of truth in that.
When DJT has finally shuffled off this mortal coil I propose that his headstone read:
And yet there were what 16 other Republican candidates running against DJT in 2015-16. 16 Republicans, let that sink in and sit in your brain for 5 minutes.
The Repubs like it when their are authoritarians without safeguards or boundaries when it is one of their own. But when it comes to a President who dares to wear a tan suit and a First Lady with bare arms, oh, the outrage.
First test of the media after Trump’s disappearance from Twitter, and I would say solid D-.
Thank you, Captain Obvious. The real solution, of course, is to stop electing lunatics.
@maximus As usual, forgot to read the whole thread. You beat me to it.
Not so sure the FDA couldn’t stand a little political pressure here and there, to be honest. Anyone remember the Washington University researcher who, a year ago, finally risked her career to test samples for the novel coronavirus after hitting her head against the FDA wall over and over? Or the current situation with rapid testing for public health as opposed to diagnostic purposes?
To be fair, it’s the law that has to be tweaked in some of these cases, but it sure helps to have a bureaucracy advocating for needed change instead of blindly sticking to a status quo.
The FDA commissioner who President Trump pressured for months to approve a COVID-19 vaccine before the 2020 election thinks that the agency should be independent.
Inspectors Generals are supposed to be independent but they are not.
What about having qualified individuals who can “just say no”?
Biggest joke of all. They all work for the head of the department they’re investigating.
No wonder that they almost never find that there’s a failure in leadership or something that might point back at the person who is their boss.
Those offices need to be stripped out from the various agencies and be made into an independent investigatory body.
While by law, Inspectors General are under the general supervision of the agency head or deputy, neither the agency head nor the deputy can prevent or prohibit an Inspector General from conducting an audit or investigation.
Hahn is brown nosing to keep his job. He should be kicked to the curb.