Well, here’s something you don’t see every day in the halls of the White House—a surprise medical emergency, a swift press ejection, and Dr. Mehmet Oz taking the reins of one of the most powerful healthcare bureaucracies in the country, all in the same afternoon.
President Trump’s pick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Dr. Oz, was in the middle of being sworn in Friday when things took an unexpected turn. The press was there, the cameras were rolling, and Trump was giving his remarks—then suddenly, chaos. Video footage shows what appeared to be a young girl suffering a medical emergency mid-ceremony. Within seconds, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shouted, “Press out! Everybody get out, right now!” And just like that, the media was ushered out, no questions asked.
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Now, to be fair, medical emergencies can happen anywhere. But when it happens during a ceremony swearing in a former heart surgeon and television doctor, you can’t help but raise an eyebrow. Talk about irony.
The White House hasn’t said much—no press release, no update from officials, not even a “thoughts and prayers” tweet. As of now, we’re left to piece it together from shaky video and scattered reports. But here’s what we do know: Dr. Oz was confirmed on April 3 by a 53-45 vote in the Senate. It was a party-line showdown, with Republicans backing the former TV personality and Democrats doing what they do best—complaining that someone successful and unafraid to question the bureaucratic medical-industrial complex is now in charge of over $1.5 trillion in healthcare spending.
CMS, for those who don’t follow the alphabet soup of Washington, controls Medicare, Medicaid, and the Obamacare marketplace. In other words, it’s ground zero for everything from seniors’ prescription drugs to the bloated bureaucracy that drives up your premiums. And now, Trump has installed someone who’s not a paper-pushing career bureaucrat, but an actual doctor with a spine.
You can bet that left-wing media will try to turn this moment into something dramatic—“Why was the press removed? What aren’t they telling us?”—because they’d rather stir up scandal than talk about how a conservative administration is finally cleaning up healthcare.
So while the details of the incident remain unclear, one thing isn’t: the Trump administration is moving full steam ahead with a second-term agenda that’s already shaking up D.C.
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