Health Secretary Alex Azar resigning on Jan. 20

Wednesday shortly after proceedings began to count the Electoral College votes and confirm Biden's election."Physical violence and the desecration of this hallowed symbol of our democracy must end. People must immediately and peacefully disperse," he said on Twitter., a former pharmaceutical executive, to head the U.S. agency in late 2017, replacing Trump's first HHS chief, Dr. Tom Price.

Prior to his role, Azar served as the department's general counsel from 2001 to 2005 and deputy secretary from 2005 to 2007. From 2012 to 2017, he was president of Lilly USA, the American arm of drug giant Eli Lilly.currently has more than 23.33 million coronavirus cases and has recorded the most virus deaths by a wide margin, with more than 389,000 confirmed fatalities so far, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

Federal and state officials are racing to distribute vaccines to prevent Covid-19 and bring an end to the pandemic.

Just go already! You and your complicity need to leave now!

Clown 🤡

Slink right on out the door mr good for nothing

Teflon Al.

Huh?!? Isn’t that his last day on this job anyway?

He thinks he can just melt back into civilization.

A real hero to the people 🤡

So much for health

This Trump train has completely derailed and exploded

I would have hoped he would have been fired anyway!

Isn’t there a new one?

Bold move.

Nominated for the Dr Mengele award for most damage done by by one health care “professional “

roon0292 I mean yeah he kinda has no choice

God what a mercenary

The stupidity of literally every person in this administration is astonishing.

Good

😂😂😂😂What an idiot.

Buh-bye ✌🏻

Azar is Example One of the incompetent leadership that survived in the disastrous Trump administration!

He was gonna get fired that day anyways he did a horrible job along with trump 🤦🏽🤷🏽‍♂️😂

Good.

Isn't his term ending that day anyway because the NEW President will be taking over? Hilarious....

Incompetence in a suit, just like his boss

So . . . there's still time to finally announce their long-promised Health Plan?

cuck

That’s news

Good! He was worthless and dishonest & useless!

He future endeavored himself.

Wow CNBC literally not twitting news anymore. Do you have interns running your account?

I hope Azar is stripped of his licence to practice, if he ever had one. AlexAzar

We fired him on 11/3. SecAzar

Get out, worthless

You can’t fire me! I quit!

Do you have any reporters who actually understand how Washington works? Every Trump appointee has to resign at 12:00 on January 20th, assuming they don’t resign sooner. Afar resigning on the 20th isn’t a headline.

LOL what courage

Hallelujah! We’ll take it from here..

Duh.

What a failure! SecAzar

I don’t care, do you? He’s getting fired that day anyway. 🤦‍♀️🥰

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