President Donald Trump will nominate Jason Weida to be inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services, the White House announced late Friday.
Weida has been serving as an assistant U.S. attorney in Boston. He previously practiced with Jones Day and with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
The announcement comes after Trump criticized Principal Deputy Inspector General Christi Grimm during a White House briefing April 6.
Weida represented the federal government in two lawsuits against the HHS in 2017. One suit was against two interim final rules that authorized employers “with a religious or moral objection to ...
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