Last updated on March 22nd, 2021 at 05:58 am
Xavier Becerra, the Attorney General of California, was confirmed by the US Senate to be the first Latino HHS Secretary in history.
NEW: Senate votes 50-49 to confirm Xavier Becerra as Health and Human Services Secretary. Susan Collins was the only Republican to vote YES (Democrat Mazie Hirono was absent)
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) March 18, 2021
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Republicans besides Collins opposed Becerra because of his pro-choice views and his lack of experience in healthcare. It is ironic that a party that continues to support a former president whose experience is mostly in reality TV and bankruptcy court would have a problem with the qualifications of an experienced public servant to run HHS.
As long as Republicans continue to support Trump, they don’t get to use experience as a reason not to confirm a nominee.
President Biden now has all of his cabinet nominees in place, but one, Marty Walsh, and his administration has made history by putting a large number of qualified minorities in important positions in the federal government.
Trump and his gang of mostly white rich guys, and Ben Carson, have been replaced by a cabinet that looks like America, and the nation will benefit from their governance.
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