Trump is moving to fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, according to Bloomberg Politics, capping months of turmoil at the agency that decides what drugs, food additives, and medical devices land on your family's table.
Makary took the job in March 2025 with a mandate to shake up a captured agency. Instead, the FDA has churned through leadership while Big Pharma's lobby — PhRMA spent $31.6 million in federal lobbying in 2024 alone, per OpenSecrets — keeps its lobbyists parked at every revolving door in town.
Every time the watchdog gets unstable, the watched parties win. Real Americans don't get safer food or lower drug prices from a headless agency — they get delay, confusion, and another boardroom that breathes easy.