WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump will nominate a Pennsylvania congressman to serve as the nation's drug czar, the White House announced Friday.
The Trump administration said the president has tapped Rep. Tom Marino, a Republican, to lead the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
In Congress, Marino, 64, has worked to expand access to treatment for people struggling with opioid addiction.
Marino is a former county prosecutor who served as a U.S. attorney under President George W. Bush. He was an early supporter of Trump and the first Pennsylvania congressman to endorse him in the presidential primary.
The White House also said Friday that Trump plans to nominate Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., to serve as the next administrator of NASA.
The congressman is a pi̶l̶o̶t̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶U̶.̶S̶.̶ ̶N̶a̶v̶y̶ ̶R̶e̶s̶e̶r̶v̶e̶ member of the 137th Special Operations Wing of the Oklahoma Air National Guard* and a former executive director of the Tulsa Air and Space Museum and Planetarium. He was elected to Congress in 2012 and currently serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the Science, Space and Technology Committee.
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*CORRECTION: Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the next administrator of NASA, is a member of the 137th Special Operations Wing of the Oklahoma Air National Guard. In a previous version of this article, The Associated Press erroneously reported the nature of his service.