WASHINGTON —

A Senate hearing for President Donald Trump's surgeon general pick, Casey Means, has been postponed because she went into labor with her first child, a spokesperson for the Senate health committee said Thursday morning.

The news comes just hours before Means, who has been pregnant, was set to appear virtually with the committee for her confirmation hearing. It was not immediately clear when the hearing would be rescheduled.

Means, a Stanford-educated physician who rose to popularity as a wellness influencer after becoming disillusioned with traditional medicine, was expected to share a vision for ending chronic disease by targeting its root causes, an idea that aligns with the Make America Healthy Again message of her close ally, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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