Summary
The Senate committee approved President Trump's choice, Nicole Saphier, to be the next surgeon general, moving her nomination to the full Senate. Saphier is a radiologist and former Fox News medical contributor who supports vaccines and has criticized public health responses to COVID-19.
Key Facts
- President Trump nominated Nicole Saphier in April to be surgeon general.
- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee advanced her nomination in a party-line vote.
- Saphier is a radiologist and breast imaging director at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Monmouth.
- She was a medical contributor for Fox News before her nomination.
- Saphier wrote a 2020 book criticizing public health and government handling of health care.
- She told the committee that the MMR vaccine is safe and important for fighting measles.
- Saphier said she does not believe childhood vaccines cause autism.
- Committee chairman Sen. Bill Cassidy supported her nomination after hearing her vaccine statements.
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