A doctor who approved monoclonal antibodies for President Donald Trump during the COVID-19 pandemic was fired at the beginning of April due to budget cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Peter Stein approved the then-novel treatment for Trump when he was infected with Covid and airlifted to the Walter Reed Medical Center. The president later called the treatment a “miracle.”

Trump famously later recommended that people inject themselves with bleach to cure Covid, though he later claimed he was joking.

Stein’s firing was among the professionals tracking the ongoing bird flu epidemic.

Dr. David Kessler, former FDA commissioner, talked with Rachel Maddow about the devastating effects of Trump’s cuts to American healthcare, which have dismantled important services and compromised the U.S. medical and scientific leadership. Kessler noted Stein’s firing as one result of the cuts.

Christi Grimm also spoke out against Trump’s cuts following her firing as inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services. Grimm and several other inspector generals have sued Trump and his cabinet officials, alleging the terminations were illegal and a violation of law, including a litmus test of whether the executive branch chooses partisan loyalists or independent guardians to root out fraud, waste, and abuse that exists within U.S. health care programs.

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