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President Trump’s nominee to lead the Indian Health Service has withdrawn his name from consideration for the position, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Humans Services said Wednesday.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 Weaver joins a growing list of Trump nominees who have withdrawn from consideration after questions arose about their fitness for their assigned posts.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.

So the vetting process worked... 😟

Who vetted this guy for a nomination?

He obviously misrepresented himself and was caught...

Why do you post this stuff..?? Are you trying to get people to hate the POTUS as much as you do..?? Do you own a gun..?!? 😕

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

Had he actually been granted this post it might be news... This is just hate... 😟

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

We're coming off of 8 years of hate, you'd better get used to it.

Did the orange f**ktard nominate her?

So basically your just spewing hate? No constructive posts, just orange f**ktard this and orange f**ktard that? Very constructive and adult of you.
You sound like a little bully on the 4th grade playground hurling insults..... you'd think someone as intelligent as you think you are could come up with some different insults.......try boogerface or kaka pants.......f**ktard is really not a word children like you should be using with such frequency....[-x

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

I try to mix it up.
Orange f**ktard is Victor's baby, I like to pay homage to his wit.

You're a noob, you weren't here for Obama's years.
The shoe is on the other foot now, enjoy.

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.

There was not this much hate against Obama personally.. just the stupid chit he did by acting as if he was King.. 😟

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

I bet if Rubio was President you'd hate him too... You're screaming Liberal Extremist... 😟

And your link goes nowhere... 😟

I wouldn't hate Rubio like I hate the orange imbecile.

The link was for your 58 pages of Hillary hate.

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

I may be a noob here on cbid, but I've been through 16 Presidencies, 12 that I really paid attention to, and I have to admit, I don't remember anything like the things you post being said in public about any of them....Obama included......I mean yeah things were said, but not the vile venomous sort of things you post, and to top it off you seem to take delight in saying them, like your proud of yourself because you think your doing something special and precocious.

Well, I was always taught if your not part of the solution, your part of the problem......instead of all your witty orange f**ktard poison, why don't you actually try to come up with some solutions, run for an office, and try to fix the problems rather than go on and on with all the chit that doesn't even attempt to come up with a solution............
and Remember, Orange is the new Black 🍺