Trump’s Pick to Lead Indian Health Service Withdraws Nomination



President Trump’s nominee to lead the Indian Health Service has withdrawn his name from consideration for the position, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Humans Services said Wednesday.

The withdrawal of the nominee, Robert Weaver, follows Wall Street Journal reports that said he had inaccurately represented his qualifications to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs after his nomination in October. Mr. Weaver joins a growing list of Trump nominees who have withdrawn from consideration after questions arose about their fitness for their assigned posts.

Senator Tom Udall, Democrat of New Mexico and the vice chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, said in a statement that the move seemed “appropriate given the serious questions recently raised about his suitability to lead a vitally important health agency.”

Mr. Udall has not yet received a formal notice of the withdrawal.

The Indian Health Service could not immediately be reached for comment. Neither could Mr. Weaver.

According to The Journal, Mr. Weaver, a member of the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, claimed that he had previously held a supervisory position at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo. But former hospital officials said that they did not recognize his name, The Journal said, and that they believed Mr. Weaver’s role had involved entry-level duties, such as registering patients.
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Senator Tom Udall, the vice chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, said that the move seemed “appropriate.” Credit Tom Brenner/The New York Times

The Journal later reported that Mr. Weaver, who had asserted his financial management skills to the Senate committee, had failed to perform important financial duties in a recent position.
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The Indian Health Service, a branch of the Department for Health and Human Services, provides care for 2.2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives in 36 states. The agency, tasked with providing health services to some of the nation’s most rural regions, has long been plagued by financial and leadership troubles. A 2016 inspection by the Department of Health and Human Services revealed that staffing shortages at some Indian Health Service hospitals “sometimes force the hospital to turn patients away” and affect the ability of the hospitals to “ensure a sanitary environment.”

In a statement Wednesday night, Mr. Udall urged the Trump administration to conduct a more comprehensive review of its next nominee to lead the agency.

Who vetted this guy for a nomination?

People need to understand what the orange imbecile is doing to this country.
You won't get stuff like this on Fox.

They should see if Elizabeth Warren would like to head up the Indian Health Service, because she's a "real" indian and stuff

Did the orange f**ktard nominate her?

Perhaps if we intervene we can stop Bandifreak from doing somethin stupid... This hate is pretty scary...

I'm also trying to help inform some of you who aren't going to get this information from your news sources.
You'll thank me later.

This is hate:
http://www.cigarbid.com/Forum/c/search/#0|25

Please don't try to lecture me on hate posting.

And your link goes nowhere...

Hillary committed actual crimes.. your hate for Trump is based on the Liberal media/ Resistance accusations that you take as gospel..

He's been spewing hatred for a long time now.

Hilary was NEVER president

Must be a link to his thought process.

Keep telling yourself that.
It really makes you sound like a complete retard when you say that.
The FBI looked at her dealings, the pubes looked at her in who knows how many committees, and neither found a thing.
The pube retards are chanting "Lock her up" today, at the same time that one of the orange f**ktard's top advisers was pleading guilty to two felonies.
Funny how this is working out,

Tell me again about how no Americans were involved with those indicted Russians.

Tard .

Drafter, while you may be irony blind, you really have no crab here.

You have been pushing out political and personal hatred for the Dems for a long time now, and often when your complaints are disproven your harping only becomes louder.

I’d tell you to go back and look at your postings, but you know exactly what I mean.
Though will will fane ignorance

no way man...

Hateful is the personal attacks on the President.. I'll call out his missteps too as needed...

Gotta please the masses..

Yawn ... Trump fatigue setting in...........
..ahhhh there it is....
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CNN Russian gate appointees... My Trump fatigue is complete..... Can we try something else? lol

it's wild, can't believe i still hear "shrug" so often. Political junkies of any belief system should be mesmerized.
I confess I think she is hawt.