Trump picks Mehmet Oz to serve as Medicare and Medicaid services administrator

Trump picks Mehmet Oz to serve as Medicare and Medicaid services administrator

President-elect Donald Trump announced plans Tuesday to nominate Mehmet Oz, the celebrity doctor and onetime U.S. Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, to lead the agency that administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Trump, meanwhile, said he will nominate Wall Street banker Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary.

He also offered the position of education secretary to transition co-chair Linda McMahon, according to three people familiar with the matter. It’s not clear whether McMahon β€” a Trump loyalist, major GOP donor and former professional wrestling executive β€” has accepted.