The White House has asked for the resignation of a top aide to FDA chief
Source: Politico
11/21/2025 01:18 PM EST Updated: 11/21/2025 02:25 PM EST
The White House on Thursday emailed HHS leadership asking for the resignation of a top aide to FDA Commissioner Marty Makary whom he had sought to promote, according to two administration officials granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive personnel matter.
Makary pushed back on the request to force policy and research staffer Sanjula Jain-Nagpal out of the agency, officials told POLITICO. “She is an employee at the FDA, and that has not changed,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said Friday afternoon.
Jain-Nagpal, whose promotion to deputy chief of staff Makary had previously sought but which the White House had not yet approved, was previously listed in the public HHS directory as a health informatics specialist. She was no longer listed there as of Friday.
A White House official told POLITICO they had sought Jain-Nagpal’s resignation but reversed course after a series of discussions revealed “she had not directly disobeyed” their directives not to assume the deputy chief of staff title “because of some communications issues.” She will keep her original title, the official said.
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