White House

Domestic policy council Andrew Bremberg, director

Bremberg, a top aide for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, worked at HHS under President George W. Bush and was Mitt Romney’s point person on proposals for repeal of the Affordable Care Act in 2012.

Katy Talento, healthcare policy

The longtime GOP Hill staffer, most recently for Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, has drawn criticism for writing about health hazards of birth-control drugs for the Federalist, a conservative website.

Zina Bash, regulatory reform, legal and immigration policy

The Harvard-trained lawyer most recently was an executive at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, a physicianowned hospital in Edinburg, Texas.