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Xavier Becerra ( / hɑːviˈɛər bɪˈsɛrə / hah-vee-AIR beh-SEHR-ə; Latin American Spanish: [xaˈβjeɾ βeˈsera]; born January 26, 1958) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 25th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services since March 2021. He is the first Latino to hold this position in history. [1]
Website. www.hhs.gov. The United States secretary of health and human services is the head of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all health matters. The secretary is a member of the United States Cabinet. The office was formerly Secretary of ...
A spokeswoman for HHS told Yahoo News in an email that the department shared “GAO’s focus and urgency in battling this once-in-a-century pandemic and desire to ensure we never again face a ...
President Biden and VP Harris listen as Xavier Becerra, Biden's nominee to be HHS secretary, addresses a news conference at Biden's transition headquarters in Wilmington, Del., December 8, 2020.
February 20, 2024 at 7:23 PM. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images. WASHINGTON — House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, subpoenaed Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra ...
The United States Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of the U.S. people and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America". [3]
In response to a question about Becerra’s absence from Covid and White House briefings, an HHS official said: “At HHS, we follow the science and the guidance of our public health experts.
Andrea Joan Palm [1] (born 1973) is an American government health advisor who is the United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Biden administration. Previously, Palm served as secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services from 2019 to 2021 in the administration of Governor Tony Evers, an office she ...