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Sep 17 2021
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HHS announces new actions to 'bolster access' to abortions in Texas after restrictive law
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a plan to make available new resources to "protect reproductive health" in the face of the new Texas abortion law.
President Biden has strongly and publicly opposed SB 8, a new Texas law that effectively limits abortions after six weeks from conception. In the wake of the law’s passage, Biden attempted to direct all
Fox News (Online News)Apr 29 2020
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Top HHS official: "Absolutely no way" U.S. will run 5 million tests a day
Assistant Secretary of Health Adm. Brett Giroir, the official leading the federal government's coronavirus testing response, told Time Tuesday “there is absolutely no way" the U.S. will be able to conduct 5 million coronavirus tests per day, contradicting comments President Trump made at a press briefing later in the day.
Why it matters: A Harvard University paper assessed that the U.S
AxiosJul 08 2021
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HHS chief says his vaccine comments are being taken ‘wildly out of context’
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Thursday sought to clarify his argument that “it is absolutely the government’s business” to know which Americans have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, after facing backlash from Republicans in Congress.
In a tweet, the federal government’s top health official said his comments from earlier in the day had been “taken wildly
PoliticoDec 12 2013
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Rep. Issa accuses HHS of criminally obstructing probe into ObamaCare website
The Health and Human Services Department has told contractors working on the problem-plagued ObamaCare website not to release documents to congressional investigators, a mandate slammed as “criminal obstruction” by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa.
Fox News (Online News)Jul 13 2012
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Republicans accuse HHS of gutting welfare reform with quiet policy change
Republicans are accusing the Obama administration of unilaterally gutting welfare reform after the Department of Health and Human Services quietly notified states that they may seek a waiver for the program's strict work requirements.
Fox News (Online News)Nov 24 2018
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Record 14,000 unaccompanied immigrant children in US custody, HHS confirms
A record number of unaccompanied immigrant children, about 14,000, are currently in US custody, a Health and Human Services spokesman said Friday.
CNN (Online News)Dec 07 2020
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Biden names California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as his HHS secretary nominee
President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Democratic California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as his nominee-designate to head his Health and Human Services Department, a crucial post amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo was speculated to be on Biden's shortlist before she publicly refuted the rumors during a press conference.
“I am not going to be President-
Washington ExaminerJun 12 2018
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First Lady Points to New HHS Opioid Resources in ‘Be Best’ Spirit
First lady Melania Trump emphasized protecting the “most vulnerable” on Monday, issuing a statement in support of new Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) information on accessing state help for treating babies born to opioid-addicted mothers.
Breitbart NewsSep 14 2020
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Trump HHS Aide Michael Caputo Launches Unhinged Attack on CDC, Warns of Insurrection
Michael Caputo, the former Trump campaign official and Roger Stone associate whom President Trump appointed to be spokesman of the Department of Health and Human Services, spent the weekend defending his efforts to alter the CDC’s weekly COVID-19 reports in order to protect the president politically — a defense that included baselessly claiming that scientists at the agency were deep-state
New York MagazineAug 21 2020
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Former HHS Secretary says national coronavirus testing strategy needed to reopen schools
As the fall semester approaches, the decision of whether to bring millions of students and staff back to school has fallen largely on local school districts and university administrators.
But in order to prepare for the eventuality of coronavirus surges on campus, and avoid shuttering campus gates once more, a former administration official says that the Trump White House needs to
CBS News (Online)