: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., will vote to confirm President Donald Trump’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) nominee, Dr. Mehmet Oz, after securing commitments from him regarding transgender treatments for minors and abortion. <\/p>\n
‘On this basis, I will vote to confirm him. Now that I am confident that he has moved away from his previous positions, and he’s moved into alignment with the president, I feel comfortable voting for him,’ he told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview on Monday. <\/p>\n
The senator revealed that Oz responded to his inquiries and disavowed his past stances on transgender treatments for minors and abortion in a series of posts on X earlier in the day. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
‘Dr. Oz has responded to my questions re: past support for trans treatments for minors & his criticism of right to life. Oz now disavows his previous support for trans surgeries & drugs for minor children. He pledges to \u2018end chemical and surgical mutilation of children,\u2019’ Hawley wrote on X on Monday. <\/p>\n
‘He also walks back past criticism of state pro-life laws, says he supports the Dobbs decision, and is \u2018unequivocally pro-life.\u2019 He vows to enforce conscience protections, end the abuse of [the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act], and work to end funding for abortion providers,’ he continued. <\/p>\n
‘This was really a big shift of position for him,’ he explained, adding that he was ‘delighted’ by Oz’s responses. <\/p>\n
‘When it comes to the [transgender] issue and the life issue, those are non-negotiable for me, just as I believe they are for the president,’ the Missouri Republican explained. ‘I want to know that these people are 100% clear.’ <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
‘Every member of the Trump administration is working from the same playbook, President Trump\u2019s playbook, to restore commonsense policies and put an end to left-wing ideological nonsense afflicting our government,’ White House spokesman Kush Desai told Fox News Digital in a statement. ‘We look forward to the Senate\u2019s swift confirmation of Dr. Oz so he can join the rest of our all-star team at HHS working to Make America Healthy Again by restoring common sense, transparency, and confidence in our healthcare apparatus.’<\/p>\n
Earlier in the month, Hawley sent Oz a list of questions, specifically probing him on those issues. As of last week, Hawley said the nominee hadn’t responded, which the senator called ‘strange.’ <\/p>\n
Oz previously used his television show as a platform for people who supported and promoted transgender treatments, particularly for minors. Specifically, he hosted two transgender<\/u> children on his show in 2010 in a segment titled, ‘Transgender Kids: Too Young to Decide?’ <\/p>\n
He also expressed concerns about state laws to limit abortion during a 2019 interview<\/u> on the popular radio show ‘The Breakfast Club.’<\/p>\n
It’s ‘a hard issue for everybody,’ he said at the time. <\/p>\n
And while on ‘a personal level,’ Oz didn’t like abortion, he also believed he should not ‘interfere with everyone else\u2019s stuff,’ he said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Oz also opposed government jurisdiction on the subject of abortion when he ran for Senate in Pennsylvania as a Republican in 2022.<\/p>\n
‘I don\u2019t want the federal government involved with that at all,’ he claimed during a debate with now-Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. ‘I want women, doctors, local political leaders, letting the democracy that\u2019s always allowed our nation to thrive, to put the best ideas forward, so states can decide for themselves.’<\/p>\n
Hawley’s commitments from Oz are just the latest he’s received from Trump nominees as he considers them for confirmation. He previously got assurances from now-Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the same issues. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
When it came to now-leader of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Dr. Marty Makary, Hawley led a successful campaign to secure the resignation of a top lawyer with the FDA who previously argued in favor of abortion pill access in a high-profile case<\/u> while in former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ). <\/p>\n
‘I just view my role for those I have to vote on \u2014 I want to know that these people are going to align with the president,’ Hawley said, noting that he believes Trump has ‘moved really fast [and] really strong’ on the issues. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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