President Trump on Monday announced Alex Azar, a former pharmaceutical industry executive and George W. Bush administration official, as his pick for secretary of health and human services.

“Happy to announce, I am nominating Alex Azar to be the next HHS Secretary. He will be a star for better healthcare and lower drug prices!” Trump tweeted at about 10 a.m.

Azar would replace Georgia Republican Tom Price, who resigned in September after Politico reported that he spent more than $1 million in taxpayer money to travel on private and government aircraft.

The HHS veteran served as the department’s general counsel and deputy secretary during the Bush administration.

He has worked closely with Eric Hargan, who was recently confirmed as Trump’s deputy HHS secretary and has been acting secretary since Price’s Sept. 29 departure.

Azar has spent several years in the drug industry, one of the key sectors he’d regulate at HHS.

In 2007, he joined pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly as a senior vice president of corporate affairs and communication after he left the Bush administration.

While at Lilly, Azar served on the board of directors for BIO, a drug lobby, according to Politico.

He has called on the insurance and drug industries to work together to lower drug prices.

“We have a problem,” he said during a May conference in Philadelphia. “Patients are paying too much for drugs.”

He also has been a harsh critic of ObamaCare and cheered GOP efforts to repeal and replace it, telling Fox Business that ObamaCare is “fundamentally broken” and “circling the drain.”