Dr. Ben Carson — the famend neurosurgeon who ran a presidential marketing campaign in 2016 — is gunning for the function of Well being and Human Companies secretary below President-elect Donald Trump, The Submit has discovered.
Carson, 73, served as Trump’s secretary for Housing and City Improvement from 2017-2021, however doesn’t need the place once more and is as an alternative open to heading HHS, two sources instructed The Submit.
“[Carson’s] people are all over the transition pushing” the HHS place, one supply near Trump stated.
“His people want it,” the supply added.
Carson has been out on the marketing campaign path stumping for the president-elect and was with him on the West Palm Seaside, Florida conference middle on election evening.
He additionally gave a speech on the Republican Nationwide Conference praising Trump after the assassination try on his life at a Butler, Pa. rally in July.
Trump’s transition staff hasn’t made a last choice about who would occupy the HHS prime function, and the forty fifth president has but to call his selection for the submit.
However the sources stated Carson’s staff is advocating for him to be the HHS secretary as deliberations proceed at Mar-a-Lago.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one other potential recruit for the Trump administration, will doubtless be in a health-related function coping with “data,” however wouldn’t be tapped for the Cupboard, Trump transition chair Howard Lutnick beforehand instructed CNN.
The HHS place would require Senate affirmation, resulting in potential difficulties for RFK Jr., given his stances on vaccines.
Carson has been vocal about transgender points since leaving the Trump administration, saying in 2022 that he believes medical doctors ought to cease performing intercourse change surgical procedures on minors, and that he would “adamantly refuse in all circumstances.”
“There’s a reason why they’re called minors. They don’t really know a lot of things, and they learn over the course of time as they become mature,” he instructed the Each day Caller in an interview on the time. “I suspect that in the future we will look back on this period of transgenderism and say, ‘How could those people be so foolish?’”
Carson’s view on minors receiving intercourse change surgical procedures is in step with Trump’s. The previous president launched a video in January of 2023 that he would “stop” the surgical procedures for minors, which he stated was “child abuse.”
He’s at the moment main the American Cornerstone Institute, a conservative suppose tank that includes a podcast with Carson and gives programming for People desirous to know extra concerning the federal authorities.
The Trump staff didn’t reply to an inquiry from The Submit.
