{"id":616341,"date":"2026-05-01T01:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/616341\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T01:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:15:07","slug":"white-house-drops-surgeon-general-pick-casey-means-announces-new-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/616341\/","title":{"rendered":"White House drops surgeon general pick Casey Means, announces new nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"7WRN53E53T7TN84N052ZDJV0Y0\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">President Donald Trump on Thursday announced his latest pick for surgeon general, Nicole Saphier, putting an end to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/10\/09\/casey-means-surgeon-general-nominee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Casey Means\u2019s<\/a> nomination process that had stretched nearly a year.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"M41QWGM27N6WXEA1UJPXWQJN7G\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The choice of Saphier \u2014 a longtime Fox News contributor and radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center \u2014 represents Trump\u2019s third attempt to fill the job of the nation\u2019s top doctor, after first nominating and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/05\/09\/casey-means-rfk-jr-trump-surgeon-general\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">withdrawing Janette Nesheiwat<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump on Thursday announced his latest pick for surgeon general, Nicole Saphier, putting an end to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-616341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}