Becerra’s Nomination as HHS Secretary Continues to Draw Fire ncregister.com

Marking his administration’s close ties to California’s progressive, Democratic-controlled power structure, President-elect Joseph Biden announced that he will nominate Xavier Becerra, the state’s combative attorney general who succeeded now Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in that position, to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

And while Biden lauded Becerra, who has no experience in the health-care sector, as a “world-class expert” who will help the United States “heal as a nation,” party lawmakers and activists noted the nominee’s strong record on expanding access to health care and securing unrestricted access to abortion, policies close to the heart of the Democratic base…

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