Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary accused President Donald Trump’s administration of prioritizing industry profits over the welfare of Americans, Politico reported.

“Every time I saw government corruption, I rejected it, just as voters did last week,” he told Politico.

Makaray also told the outlet that the White House and fellow health officials weren’t focused on “medical cures or healthy food,” but rather “getting more vapes approved and catering to lobbyists.”

“Americans don’t want their kids smoking strawberry banana vapes — they want a government that stands up to corruption,” he added.

In response to Makary’s remarks, White House spokesperson Allison Schuster told MS NOW that the “only special interest guiding President Trump’s decision-making is the best interest of the American people” and that the “only guiding factor behind the Trump administration’s health policymaking is Gold Standard Science.”

Makary, who resigned in May, is the latest former health official to accuse the Trump administration of corruption. Calley Means, a former senior adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said he resigned from the administration last month because officials catered to special interests and tried to enrich their families.

“The simple reality in why I left is that there is a very concentrated group of people in the Trump administration that are antagonistic to what people voted for and are frankly — I think it’s very clear — doing things for other reasons,” Means told podcast host Joe Rogan.

In a post on X late last week, Kennedy wrote that he and Trump “intend to keep fighting until the American people — not corporate influence — drive our health policies.”

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