(Reuters) -The White House has asked for the resignation of top aide to U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, Politico reported on Friday, citing administration officials.

Makary had sought to promote Sanjula Jain-Nagpal, a policy and research staffer at the FDA, which the White House had not yet approved, the report said.

Instead, the White House emailed leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday asking for her resignation, Politico reported.

Makary pushed back on the request to force Jain-Nagpal out of the agency, officials told Politico.

She is an employee at the FDA, and that has not changed, an HHS spokesperson told Reuters.

The White House did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.

Jain-Nagpal was appointed in

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