Senate Confirms Xavier Becerra as Secretary of Health and Human Services

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Xavier Becerra was confirmed as health secretary in a 50-49 Senate vote. He will take over an agency at the center of the federal Covid-19 response.

The secretary also inherits a series of challenges at the sprawling agency, which has a $1.2 trillion budget and has operated since late January with no confirmed secretary.

He will also oversee the HHS office that runs a network of shelters for child migrants that have been in focus as the number of young immigrants illegally crossing the U.S. southern border is

 

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Another unity vote.

thank you very much for your work

let me guess......not a single Repoooplican voted to confirm......and this is what McConnell means as non-partisan? WE VOTERS need to kick all their asses OUT OF CONGRESS....the ENTIRE Congress is broke and WE VOTERS need to fix it.

This is nuts!!!

Not qualified

QUIT THE CRAP!!!!!!

Great, more 'lockdowners' in Washington.

Hopefully he can stop the illegal immigrants from coming across the border

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