This IS getting to be a bit ugly….
Republicans seem to trying to pick on anyone not a white guy a bit harder?
Becerra seems to have a few Republicans on his side and will get confirmed…
There IS nothing about being asked tough questions to get a job that impacts hundreds of millions of Americans…
But?
Senate Republicans are setting their sights on California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, President Biden’s choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, as their next target in the battle over Biden’s Cabinet.
Republicans, on the cusp of quashing Neera Tanden’s nomination to head the White House budget office, are looking for their next scalp and see Becerra as a tough vote for Democrats.
They argue that Becerra, a Democrat who served for 24 years in the House before becoming California’s attorney general in 2017, lacks the medical or administrative background needed to lead the nation’s health agencies in the midst of a pandemic….
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“Obviously he’s an attorney by trade in the middle of a pandemic. This is not the time to be able to put an attorney leading Health and Human Services,” Lankford said.
“We also have other issues like the issues about life and about conscience,” he added, citing Becerra’s defense of California’s FACT Act.
Several Senate Republicans have sent a letter to the White House asking Biden to rescind Becerra’s nomination….
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Schumer said it was “rich” for Republicans to attack Becerra’s qualifications after they supported Rick Perry, former President Trump’s pick for secretary of Energy.
The Democratic leader noted that Perry “wanted to abolish” the Energy Department “before learning it maintained the nation’s nuclear stockpile and that he would be in charge of it.” …