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Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy in a 2014 file photo.

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The White House dismissed Obama-era Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and replaced him with the deputy surgeon general.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement Murthy was asked to resign his duties, according to USA Today.

Murthy announced his departure on Twitter.

Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, a nurse, will serve as Acting Surgeon General.

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While its unclear exactly when the changeover occurred, Trent-Adams photo had replaced Murthys on the official Surgeon Generals Twitter and Facebook pages on Friday night. One of the first comments on a Facebook photo of Trent-Adams on Friday night was What happened to Dr. Murthy?

Her bio had also replaced Murthys on the Surgeon Generals website.

Murthy issued a statement on his personal Facebook page, writing that he will forever be grateful to our country for welcoming my immigrant family nearly 40 years ago and giving me this opportunity to serve.

While I had hoped to do more to help our nation tackle its biggest health challenges, I will be forever grateful for the opportunity to have served, Murthy wrote.

His post addressed the addiction crisis, which he wrote that we will only be successful in addressing addiction and other illnesses when we recognize the humanity within each of us. In November, he authored a report calling for Americans to view addiction as a chronic illness and not a character flaw.

We have made progress on drug addiction, Murthy said on CBS This Morning in November. How do we keep that progress going? A key part is making sure people have insurance coverage.

Murthy had called gun violence a public health crisis, and the National Rifle Association tried to block his confirmation in 2014. At the time of his confirmation, he pledged to make obesity one of his signature issues.

Murthy, 39, is a native of Britain and a graduate of Harvard and Yale.

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Organizing for Action's digital ad campaign is focusing on heavily Latino districts and states represented by Senate and House Republicans. | Getty

By Kevin Robillard

04/21/17 12:27 PM EDT

Updated 04/21/17 12:54 PM EDT

The progressive group that grew out of former President Barack Obama's campaigns is making its first big move since Obama left office, targeting potential swing votes in Congress with digital ads ahead of a government funding fight over President Donald Trump's proposed border wall.

Organizing for Action's digital ad campaign is focusing on heavily Latino districts and states represented by Senate and House Republicans. The aim is to pressure members not to go along with the White House's demand for funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, which the administration has said will cost $21 billion. (Senate Democrats estimate the actual cost is closer to $70 billion.)

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The Trump White House is pushing for the border wall in a new government funding bill, but Senate Democrats have said they can't support additional cash for one of the administration's biggest priorities. Government funding runs out next Friday, giving both parties little time to find a solution.

The group's ads, which will start appearing on Facebook on Monday, tell users to call their representatives and ask them "not to fund the administration's wall and deportation force." The ads target Nevada Sen. Dean Heller and Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, the two Senate Republicans considered most vulnerable to Democratic challengers in 2018.

They'll also run in a slew of districts represented by House Republicans: Arizona Rep. Martha McSally; California Reps. Jeff Denham, David Valadao, Devin Nunes, Steve Knight, Ed Royce and Darrell Issa; Colorado Reps. Scott Tipton and Mike Coffman; Florida Reps. Brian Mast, Mario Diaz-Balart, Carlos Curbelo and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen; Pennsylvania Rep. Charlie Dent; and Texas Reps. John Culberson, Will Hurd and Pete Sessions.

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Hillary Clinton carried most of those districts in the 2016 election. Trump carried the districts of Nunes, Tipton, Mast, Diaz-Balart and Dent.

"This administration wants to waste billions of taxpayer dollars on a massive border wall and a cruel deportation force, but only Congress can actually appropriate that spending," Organizing for Action spokesman Jesse Lehrich said. "We want key members to know that if they vote to fund this discriminatory immigration agenda with their constituents' money, they'll be held accountable."

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WASHINGTON The White House still doesnt have a top science adviser, but it has a science fair in the works.

A White House official said Friday that the science fair, an annual tradition started by former President Barack Obama in 2010, will continue under President Trump. No date has been finalized.

The news, first reported by CBS, comes ahead of a science-centric weekend in Washington. As part of the March for Science, thousands are expected to descend on the National Mall and at satellite marches around the country on Saturday to promote evidence-based policymaking and stress the importance of federally funded basic science research. While organizers have stressed that the event is nonpartisan, it is widely viewed as a rebuke of the current administration, whose policies on climate change and other issues have generated controversy.

Obamas final science fair in 2016 featured exhibits including a portable diagnostic test for Ebola, an ocean energy harvester, and a robot designed to clean up the New York City subway.

Ivanka Trump, the presidents daughter and one of his key advisers, has advocated alongside Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for increased youth engagement in STEM fields.

But other signs about Trumps commitment to science have been less comforting for the scientific community. His 2018 budget blueprint included a $5.8 billion cut from budget for the National Institutes of Health, and even congressional Republicans balked at his desire to cut an additional $1.2 billion from the still-unresolved 2017 budget.

Beyond funding, science advocates have expressed concern that the administration has not yet appointed a director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Obama announced the appointment of his top science adviser, traditionally the head of that office, in December 2008, before his inauguration. The presidents lone science and technology hire, according to the New York Times, is a former adviser to Silicon Valley tech mogul Peter Thiel who has played little role in presidential briefings.

One rumored candidate, Princeton physicist William Happer, has argued that higher atmospheric carbon levels would lead to higher farming productivity and provide a net societal benefit. Trumps meeting with prominent vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has also generated within the scientific community.

Republished with permission fromSTAT. This articleoriginally appearedon April 21, 2017

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