The Senate confirmation hearing for President Trump’s surgeon general pick was postponed indefinitely Thursday after the nominee, health influencer and entrepreneur Dr. Casey Means , went into labor.

“Everyone’s happy for Dr. Means and her family,” said Emily Hilliard, deputy press secretary for the Health and Human Services Department. “This is one of the few times in life it’s easy to ask to move a Senate hearing !”

Means, 38, was scheduled to appear virtually before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) from Kilauea, Hawaii .

Nominated five months ago, she was expected to explain some of her controversial medical positions and sketch out her plan to end chronic diseases by homing in on their root causes. That notion is favored by the so-called

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