ToplinePresident-elect Donald Trump tapped Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Wednesday, nominating the television host and former Senate candidate to lead the division as his administration reportedly eyes cuts to Medicaid and a bigger role for Medicare’s private alternative.

The selection of television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services could bring on budget cuts, the privatization of Medicare and reduced benefits for the nation’s most vulnerable citizens,

President-elect Trump’s choice of celebrity doctor and failed Senate candidate Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) marks the latest potential shake-up of federal

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he had chosen television personality and surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a wide-reaching agency with annual spending of $2.

Mehmet Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon turned talk show host and lifestyle guru, is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the massive federal health care bureaucracy that covers more than a third of Americans.

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped billionaire professional wrestling mogul Linda McMahon to be secretary of the Education Department, tasked with overseeing an agency Trump has promised to dismantle.

The well-known TV physician and former GOP Senate candidate was panned by Democrats as unqualified. The role requires Senate confirmation.

McMahon supports expanding federal Pell grant eligibility beyond college students to those in workforce training programs, like software coding bootcamps.