Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), who was blackballed during the COVID pandemic for bucking scientific consensus, is “one the most exciting picks of all the Trump picks,” Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) told Breitbart News.
“President Trump has picked a game changer to lead the NIH, to clean it up,” he told Breitbart News. “I mean, talk about draining the swamp and disrupting Washington. Dr Bhattacharya is the type of figure that’s going to do that.”
“They hate his guts exactly because he’s going to disrupt the NIH and return it back to what it’s supposed to do,” Banks told Breitbart News. “It’s just research and study, research and cures, instead of being a political piggy bank for the radical left to be used against the American people, like they did during COVID.”