{"id":218311,"date":"2026-04-08T15:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=218311"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:49:15","slug":"trumps-maha-agenda-stalled-as-top-cdc-and-surgeon-general-roles-sit-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=218311","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Maha agenda stalled as top CDC and surgeon general roles sit empty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump has yet to nominate a permanent CDC director and the Senate confirmation of his pick for top doctor is in limboSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxThe Trump administration\u2019s \u201cMake America healthy again\u201d (Maha) agenda appears to be stalled as two of the government\u2019s most influential public health positions sit empty.Donald Trump has yet to nominate a permanent director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/26\/trump-maha-agenda-cdc-surgeon-general\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump has yet to nominate a permanent CDC director and the Senate confirmation of his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218311-trumps-maha-agenda-stalled-as-top-cdc-and-surgeon-general-roles-sit-empty.jpg",140,112,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218311-trumps-maha-agenda-stalled-as-top-cdc-and-surgeon-general-roles-sit-empty.jpg",140,112,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218311-trumps-maha-agenda-stalled-as-top-cdc-and-surgeon-general-roles-sit-empty.jpg",140,112,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218311-trumps-maha-agenda-stalled-as-top-cdc-and-surgeon-general-roles-sit-empty.jpg",140,112,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218311-trumps-maha-agenda-stalled-as-top-cdc-and-surgeon-general-roles-sit-empty.jpg",140,112,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218311-trumps-maha-agenda-stalled-as-top-cdc-and-surgeon-general-roles-sit-empty.jpg",140,112,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218311-trumps-maha-agenda-stalled-as-top-cdc-and-surgeon-general-roles-sit-empty.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218311-trumps-maha-agenda-stalled-as-top-cdc-and-surgeon-general-roles-sit-empty.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218311-trumps-maha-agenda-stalled-as-top-cdc-and-surgeon-general-roles-sit-empty.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218311-trumps-maha-agenda-stalled-as-top-cdc-and-surgeon-general-roles-sit-empty.jpg",140,112,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=14\" rel=\"category\">BREAKING NEWS<\/a>","tag_info":"BREAKING NEWS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/218312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}