Joe Manchin, the Democratic Senator from West Virginia, spoke in opposition to US President Joe Biden’s pick for head of the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), Fox News informed.
His motives were the candidate’s relations with the pharmaceutical industry in the crisis with opioids.
Manchin published a statement in which he opposes Biden’s pick, Robert Califf, who was appointed as head of the same agency at the end of Obama’s mandate.
Manchin argued that the nomination of Califf does not make any sense due to the fact that the opioid crisis is still looming in the country and affecting families with no end in sight.
The Democratic senator also slammed Biden’s pick for his links to the pharmaceutical industry and having a major role in the exacerbation of the opioid epidemic.
Manchin said that Califf’s pick to lead the FDA will take the US backwards and that his nomination is would be an insult to the people that went through hardship because of the addiction.
The senator said that he could not support Califf’s nomination, just as he had not supported it in the previous nomination, pointing out that the FDA needs a face that will understand the seriousness of the situation with prescription drugs, but also the agency’s role in fighting against the pharmaceutical industry’s greed.
Manchin concluded that the public health of the nation should be the number one priority of the head of the FDA.
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