Trump Picks Dr. Oz for CMS Administrator

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🗓️ 19 November 2024

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:00pm- Trump Picks Administrator for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In a statement, Donald Trump announced: “I am very pleased to nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator. America is facing a Healthcare Crisis, and there may be no Physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again. He is an eminent Physician, Heart Surgeon, Inventor, and World-Class Communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades. Dr. Oz will work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake.” 4:10pm- Does Cory Booker Agree with RFK Jr.? In a video posted to social media, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said he is “raising the alarm of the dangers of our current food system.” 4:20pm- Philly City Soda Tax: Where’d the Money Go? Journalist John Stossel investigated the Philadelphia soda tax—which politicians pledged would go towards funding public schools. However, less than half the money raised ultimately ended up in the school systems and the tax harmed local businesses. 4:40pm- Dr. EJ Antoni—Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss Donald Trump’s tariff policy and the selection of Howard Lutnik to serve as U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr.
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0:11.7	Call me at 856-252-0107.
0:15.9	Breaking news, Dr. Oz is back and he will be joining the Trump administration. That's right, Dr. Memad
0:23.1	Oz, who ran for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. Of course, the famous celebrity doctor has been named
0:28.5	the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. I'll give you all the details
0:34.7	on that. Welcome back to the show. Glad you're here, 855, 8, 9, 12, 10 on Twitter at Rich Zoli.
0:41.2	So that was a second announcement today, the first being Howard Lutnik as Commerce Secretary.
0:46.3	Lutnik is a guy is strong, man.
0:49.3	I think he's got a gift of being able to explain complicated trade policy, things that a lot of us don't really understand and breaking it down for us to understand.
0:59.0	His points about tariffs, for example, were probably, of all the people I've heard explain tariffs over the years,
1:06.7	I thought Lutnik did the best job of explaining how to properly use tariffs to level the playing field around the world.
1:15.2	And also he's pointing out how we still have tariffs from World War II that other countries imposed on the United States of America.
1:22.2	So Lutnik's going to be great.
1:23.7	He spoke at a lot of Trump rallies over the course of the campaign, and he was a big
1:29.7	advocate for him. New York City right now, they have postponed the sentencing of former and
1:37.5	future President Donald Trump to after he leaves office. Now, the case should just be dismissed.
1:45.4	But I'm going to tell you why it's not going to be.
1:47.7	And that is because Alvin Bragg wants to get reelected, and Manhattan went 65% for Kamala Harris.
1:55.7	There's a lot of Trump haters in that city.
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