President-elect Trump has picked doctor and TV personality Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), he announced. Oz is a household name and became a Trump world ally during a failed 2022 Senate run. But he has no experience running a large government bureaucracy like CMS, which administers Medicare and Medicaid and conducts other services like inspecting nursing homes. Trump said Oz would “cut waste and fraud within our Country’s most expensive Government Agency,” in a signal that cuts might be coming to entitlement spending.
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Source: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/19/trump-dr-oz-cms-cabinet