Senate HELP Chair Bill Cassidy's primary loss casts congressional health policy, leadership confirmations on new trajectory

A new Senate healthcare head is in the cards for 2027 after Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, M.D., failed to advance in his primary over the weekend.  | Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, M.D., will tackle health policy priorities and multiple leadership confirmation processes as a lame duck after drawing the ire of both President Donald Trump and the Make America Healthy Again movement.