Xavier Becerra Confirmed as HHS Secretary

March 18, 2021 — Xavier Becerra was once confirmed as secretary of health and human services by the U.S. Senate on Thursday.

The vote was once 50 to 49, and Senator Susan Collins of Maine was once the handiest Republican to toughen his confirmation, The New York Instances reported.

Becerra is a son of Mexican immigrants who grew to turn out to be a member of Congress and California’s attorney long-established.

He’ll turn out to be the main Latino to oversee the HHS, and takes payment as the Biden administration leads the nation out of the coronavirus pandemic, which has already triggered bigger than half one million deaths and has hit folk of color namely exhausting, the Instances reported.