The Food and Drug Administration has shelved the fast-track drug review initiative launched during the Trump administration by former Commissioner Marty Makary
No new drugs have been given a voucher under the FDA’s fast-track review program since Marty Makary left the agency in May. According to internal documents and six sources familiar with the matter, the initiative has now been shelved. The shelving of the National Priority Voucher program has not been previously reported.
The Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher program was launched in June 2025, during the Trump administration. Its aim was to compress drug review timelines to as little as one to two months for therapies addressing national priorities, such as urgent unmet health needs. Once presented as a bold fix for U.S. pharmaceutical regulation, the initiative has effectively stalled.
Critics, however, pointed to possible preferential treatment for companies meeting Donald Trump’s demands, such as offering drugs at lower prices. The program has been left adrift, offering a stark window into the internal chaos, infighting, and lack of steady leadership that has plagued the FDA, which has been without a commissioner since May.
Yeah…nah…that “fast tracking” was allowing pharma to bribe the FDA for approval.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/03/fda-official-resigns-george-tidmarsh
Which they already do. So it’s like basically adding a corruption express lane instead.
They also held back competing drugs that worked and were safer.
Wow, the FDAs plan to stop reviewing drugs didnt work out? Who could have possibly predicted that medications need to be tested?
Not surprised. It’s actually hard to name one thing that Trump didn’t fuck up.
His reputation. Still a piece of shit. His last breath will echo around the world.
