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Senate postpones hearing for Trump’s surgeon general pick after she goes into labor

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Casey Means attends Robert F Kennedy Jr’s confirmation hearing in Washington DC on 29 January 2025. Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP

The Senate hearing for Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, Casey Means, has been postponed after the nominee went into labor with her first child.

Means had planned to make history as the first nominee to appear virtually before the Senate health, education, labor and pensions committee due to her pregnancy on Thursday. The hearing was originally scheduled for two days after her due date, a person familiar with the matter told CNN. It remains unclear when the hearing will be rescheduled.

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