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President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, dodged a question on whether he would push to provide United States taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits to illegal aliens. 

The Biden Administration faces increasing criticism for holding unaccompanied migrant children in Border Patrol custody–some longer than the legal 72-hour limit.

Xavier Becerra refused to answer questions about his radical pro-abortion views during his Senate confirmation hearing for the post of HHS secretary.

Psaki defended the administration’s actions after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemned the newly reopened camps used to detain unaccompanied minors until they can be transferred into the country. 

Conservatives are joining forces to oppose President Joe Biden’s nominee to head Health and Human Services (HHS), describing the former Congressman and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as an “extremist” who believes in abortion on demand up to the moment of birth and no intervention if a baby survives the procedure.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) declared Tuesday that the only experience President Joe Biden’s Health and Human Services (HHS) nominee, Xavier Becerra, has with “health care is that he sued the Little Sisters of the Poor” as a “trial lawyer.”

Eleven Senate Republicans wrote to President Joe Biden Monday, urging the 46th president to withdraw California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s nomination to serve as the next secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Pro-life leaders are urging the Senate to reject Biden’s choice for Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, Xavier Becerra.

The Biden Administration faces a growing crisis as waves of unaccompanied minors cross the U.S.-Mexico Border in increasing numbers. Shelters are filling fast and are now estimated to be 93 percent occupied.

President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is under fire as Republicans in the Senate unify against him and Democrats remain uncertain if they will be able to cobble together enough votes to secure confirmation.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue has blasted President Joe Biden’s nomination of Xavier Becerra to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services, calling him “a menace to life and liberty.”

Former Trump HHS OCR director Roger Severino said Joe Biden has introduced some “extraordinarily divisive” nominees to his cabinet.

NIH issued a press release on Wednesday calling for increasing the number of pregnant and lactating “people” in coronavirus research.

A Christian organization has been suspended from Twitter for stating the biological sex of a Biden appointee as a HHS official.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is seeking to buy more doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine directly from the company, despite a growing surplus in the state.

President Trump signed an executive order on Monday that would provide emergency scholarships for students affected by school closures.

More than 40 national pro-life leaders are calling upon the U.S. Senate to vote “no” on Joe Biden’s choice of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary.

The Trump administration announced its enforcement of federal conscience protection laws with regard to the funding of, and participation in, abortions.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue has denounced Joe Biden’s pick of “pro-abortion zealot” Xavier Becerra as Secretary of Health and Human Services, calling for all-out opposition to the appointment.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Wednesday vowed to work smoothly and professionally with the Joe Biden transition team as the nation continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic.

The Associated Press wondered openly on Tuesday whether California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is actually up to the job for which Joe Biden has nominated him — namely, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

President Donald Trump has lowered drug prices and issued several executive orders on lowering Medicare drug prices, though critics say more action is needed.

HHS’s Office of Civil Rights has reached settlements with VA and MD hospitals, which will now all clergy to visit hospitalized patients.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reacted to the Centers for Disease Control’s reversal of changes to its guidance on the spread of coronavirus through the air by stating that the CDC “has been

CDC Director Robert Redfield said face masks are better at protecting against the coronavirus disease than a potential vaccine. 

Top health officials denied on Wednesday that political appointees are meddling with CDC’s weekly scientific reports on coronavirus.

A federal judge blocked HHS from enacting a rule designed to define sex based on biology and to protect relgious conscience.

On his last day in Taiwan, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar visited the shrine of former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui.

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar told Breitbart News exclusively he views his trip to Taiwan as a message from the United States to the world that Taiwan is and has been a “very important partner” with the U.S. when it comes to global health security.

“I’m therefore proud to announce that this morning the Moderna has officially entered phase three already,” Trump said, noting that it was a final stage of vaccine development.

HHS Secretary Alex Azar said the the Trump administration will pay Pfizer $2 billion for 100 million vaccine doses to fight the coronavirus.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), angered by the Trump administration’s requirement that hospitals bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and report coronavirus data directly to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said that hospitals should tell the president to “GO TO HELL.”

The White House Coronavirus Task Force will now receive all data related to the virus directly from hospitals instead of through the CDC.

The Chinese coronavirus pandemic and the associated lockdowns disrupted pediatric outpatient visits and routine childhood vaccinations in the United States, leaving children and their communities vulnerable to potential outbreaks of preventable diseases such as measles, top health officials testified on Thursday.

The number of new Chinese coronavirus cases in the United States could reach 100,000 a day if the country fails to turn things around, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, predicted while testifying before a Senate panel on Tuesday.

States experiencing growing novel coronavirus outbreaks may need to pause or roll back their reopening stages without necessarily reimposing an “absolute shutdown,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert, told a House panel on Tuesday.