The White House has approved a plan to remove FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and is considering naming Deputy Commissioner Kyle Diamantas, who oversees the agency's food division, as acting commissioner.

President Donald Trump has signed off on a plan to fire Dr. Marty Makary, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, after a series of clashes over vaping, oversight of the abortion pill and a series of new drug application denials that rattled biotech companies, according to a person briefed on the matter, who was not authorized to discuss it publicly.