Heidi Overton, the Trump administration's nominee for Food and Drug Administration commissioner, will appear before a Senate committee at 10:30 a.m. for a confirmation hearing. If confirmed, the 37-year-old preventive medicine physician would become the youngest person to lead the agency. Overton has worked in both of Donald Trump's previous administrations and now faces scrutiny over her managerial experience and her alignment with policies promoted by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, has criticized Overton for her involvement in altering the recommended childhood vaccination timeline. The FDA is currently working to recover from an 18-month period marked by politicized decisions and staff departures. The agency's workforce was reduced by nearly 20 percent in 2025 reductions-in-force, and it is still trying to rebuild its scientific staff.