For more than a month, President Donald Trump’s pick for surgeon general, Casey Means, has sought private meetings with the two Republican senators threatening to sink her nomination.
But those meetings haven’t happened, two people familiar with the matter said, with Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins remaining noncommittal about their votes.
Murkowski told CNN in mid-March she’s “not enthusiastic about her.”
The senators’ skepticism has effectively stalled Means’ candidacy, dealing a major blow to the man who championed her rise, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and his “Make America
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