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So even though medical groups had long wanted those safety labels changed, they didn't like the way McCary did it.
So what are people saying now that McCary is out?
In a post on Truth Social, President Trump thanked McCary for doing a great job.
But Dr. Ben Rome, a physician and health policy researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, says he's glad to see McCary go.
There's also been a big exodus of career staff that's in addition to the mass firings that took place just after McCary was confirmed last year.
Rome says he hopes the next person will right the ship, but he's worried.
So speaking of that, who is the next person that we think will lead the FDA?
That would be Kyle Diamantis.
Trump announced that he'll be the acting commissioner.
Diamantis had been the deputy commissioner for food, overseeing nutrition and human food safety.
He's a lawyer, not a medical doctor.
But the administration has struggled to get some of its health picks confirmed by the Senate, so it may be a while before there's a permanent commissioner.
Tensions over the war between the U.S.
and China have been rising in recent weeks, so it was unclear for a while whether Trump's summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping would go as planned.
China buys the bulk of Iranian oil.
officials want to cut off this economic lifeline for Iran.
But the U.S.-China relationship is bigger than the Iran issue.
The two are also engaged in escalating tariffs and sanctions.
This trip is the first for a U.S.