Trump's week in review: White House defends Marty Makary, DOJ sues Minneapolis Public Schools

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Saturday, December 13, 2025

1. White House defends FDA Commissioner Marty Makary amid pro-life criticism

In a statement shared with The Christian Post, White House spokesperson Kush Desai defended FDA head Marty Makary for “working diligently to ensure that Americans have the best possible, Gold Standard Science study of mifepristone.” Mifepristone is more commonly known as the abortion pill or chemical abortion. 

“The White House maintains the utmost confidence in Commissioner Makary, whose leadership at the FDA has delivered and continues to deliver one landmark victory for the American people after another, from cracking down on artificial ingredients in our food supply to conducting the first safety review of baby formula in decades,” he added. “Uninformed attacks against Commissioner Makary from individuals outside the Administration will not change those facts.” 

Desai’s remark about “attacks against Commissioner Makary from individuals outside the Administration” refers to criticism from pro-life advocacy organizations suggesting that Makary is slow-walking a promised review of the safety of Mifepristone.

“Now, nearly a year into the Trump administration, @DrMakaryFDA’s abortion drug safety review hasn’t even passed the data-gathering phase, and there’s no ETA. That’s the definition of slow-walking,” the pro-life advocacy group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America asserted in an X post this week.

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser called for Makary’s termination in a statement published earlier this week.

“Enough is enough: FDA Commissioner Makary should be fired immediately,” she demanded. “The FDA is doing nothing while every single day abortion drugs take the lives of children, put women and girls at serious risk, empower abusers and trample state pro-life laws.”

“Commissioner Makary is severely undermining President Trump and Vice President Vance’s pro-life credentials and their position that states should have the right to enact and enforce pro-life protections,” she wrote. “Makary must go.”

Makary defended his handling of the abortion pill review in an interview with The Daily Signal, stressing that it was in the “data acquisition phase” and vowing to engage in a “robust study that can serve to validate or not validate other numbers that have been put out there in the literature.”