The Senate confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump’s pick for surgeon general, Dr. Casey Means, has been postponed after she went into labor, a spokesperson for the Senate committee set to consider her nomination said.

Means was supposed to appear virtually before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Thursday morning for lawmakers to consider her nomination for the top health role.

If she assumes the role, Means would become the county’s leading public health spokesperson, with the authority to issue health warnings and advisories.

“We are very happy for Dr. Means and her family,” the Department of Health and Human Services said in a post to X . “This is one of the few times in life it’s easy to ask to move a Senate hearing!”

The committee's chairman,

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