Por ejemplo, los aspirantes a jueces no podían recibir apoyo o financiamiento de organizaciones políticas, tampoco contratar espacios de promoción en los medios. Sólo se les permitió imprimir volantes y realizar pequeñas concentraciones, así como campañas a través de las redes sociales con sus propios recursos con unos topes —de unos 11.000 dólares hasta 70.000 dólares— dependiendo del cargo al que aspiran.
Trump said in a social media post Wednesday that Means has “impeccable ‘MAHA’ credentials” – referring to the “” slogan – and that she will work to eradicate chronic disease and improve the health and well-being of Americans.
“Her academic achievements, together with her life’s work, are absolutely outstanding,” Trump said. “Dr. Casey Means has the potential to be one of the finest Surgeon Generals in United States History.”In doing so, Trump withdrew former Fox News medical contributorfrom consideration for the job, marking at least the second health-related pick from Trump to be pulled from Senate consideration. Nesheiwat had been scheduled to appear before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Thursday for her confirmation hearing.
The White House is nominating a doctor of holistic medicine to be the next Surgeon General. AP correspondent Donna Warder reports.Means and her brother, former lobbyist Calley Means, served as key advisers to Kennedy’s longshot 2024 presidential bid and helped broker his
last summer. The pair made appearances with some of Trump’s biggest supporters, winning praise from conservative pundit
. Calley Means is currently a White House adviser who appears frequently on television to promote restrictions onCongolese President Felix Tshisekedi has sought out a deal with the Trump administration that could offer the U.S. better access to his country’s resources in exchange for U.S. help calming hostilities.
has been in and out of crisis for decades with more than 100 armed groups, most of which are vying for territory in the mining region near the border with Rwanda. The conflict has created one of the world’s largest humanitarian disasters with more than 7 million people displaced, includingConflict in eastern Congo is estimated to have killed 6 million people since the mid-1990s, in the wake of the Rwanda genocide. Some of the ethnic Hutu extremists responsible for the 1994 killing of an estimated 1 million of Rwanda’s minority ethnic Tutsis and Hutu moderates later fled across the border into eastern Congo, fueling the proxy fighting between rival militias aligned to the two governments.
“Today marks not an end but a beginning,” Congolese Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner said Friday before signing the broad agreement, which commits Rwanda and Congo to draft a peace accord and work to instill security and a good business environment, allow the return of the millions of displaced and accomplish other goals.“The good news is there is hope for peace,” she said. “The real news is peace must be earned.”