Opinion: Some Trump nominees are unorthodox. That's the point

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Much more so than RFK Jr., I'm excited for some of the outsiders Trump has nominated for lower HHS posts, That includes Dr. Marty Makary, a surgeon, professor and policy researcher at Johns Hopkins University to lead the Food and Drug Administration and Jay Bhattacharya, an economist, physician and Professor of Medicine at Stanford to lead the National Institutes of Health, the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world.
51% : So does Pete Hegseth, should he survive the confirmation process to become Secretary of Defense.
49% : He's potentially got a big enough job ahead of him as an outside-the-box pick for Secretary of Defense.
44% : At the top of the list of Nominees that Gazette Columnist Althea Cole Conspicuously Neglected to Mention Last Week: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kash Patel for Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense.
43% : If I didn't know any better, I'd say that Trump and his team understand what his voters have been asking for: not just a different president, but a different direction for the country.
32% : Of course, "typical" appointments include those for loyal supporters, whether or not the president is Donald Trump.
28% : Trump, the "shake things up" candidate, can't shake off the whole Beltway bureaucracy.
26% : Trump has insisted he would not pursue any such policy.
17% : Unless Trump is lying as blatantly as President Joe Biden did about pardoning his son, I see no path forward for radical changes to vaccine authorization without proper and plentiful scientific evidence -- an understandably tall order.

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