Seema Verma has been sworn-in as the head of a key US health care agency that oversees health insurance programmes for 130 million Americans, becoming the second Indian-American to be inducted into the Trump administration.
"President Trump has chosen one of the leading experts in America on State-based healthcare solutions to lead this important agency," US Vice President Mike Pence said at the swearing-in ceremony at the White House on Tuesday.
As the head of the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services she would be heading the $1 trillion federal agency that provides health services to 130 million Americans.
Verma is the second Indian-American to be inducted into the Trump administration. The US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley was the first cabinet rank official from the community to serve in any presidential administration.