Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn pushed back on President Trump's weekend claim that his agency is controlled by the "deep state" in an interview with Reuters on Monday. "I have not seen anything that I would consider to be 'deep state' at the FDA,” Hahn told Reuters. MANDATED CORONAVIRUS VACCINATION IN US UNLIKELY, FAUCI SAYSOn Saturday, Trump accused the “deep state” at the FDA of making it hard for drug companies to test coronavirus treatments — and suggested the agency is trying to delay them until after Election Day. "The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics," he wrote on Twitter. Trump later re-tweeted a Twitter Moments story from June that reported on the FDA's decision to revoke emergency-use authorization for hydroxychloroquine — a drug Trump has promoted as a "game changer" in the pandemic.

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