The FDA commissioner and a top HHS spokesman have resigned following the recent authorization of fruit-flavored vapes.
Trump’s Vape Fallout Is Growing
By
Nia Prater,
Intelligencer staff writer, who covers New York politics
Martin Makary, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), during a news conference at the FDA headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Tuesday, April 28, 2026.
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