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The FDA has agreed to delete and never republish several social-media posts suggesting that ivermectin, a drug that some doctors used to treat COVID-19, is for animals and not humans. While the FDA still does not approve of using ivermectin to treat COVID, it settled Thursday a lawsuit brought by three doctors who sued it, as well as the Department of Health and Human Services and its secretary, Xavier Becerra, and FDA secretary Robert Califf. All parties have settled. The lawsuit, filed on June 2, 2022, was brought by doctors Mary Talley Bowden, Paul Marik and Robert Apter, each of...

The development of an airborne method of delivery for mRNA vaccines was hailed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra as "a game changer in the way we can combat future pandemics. No longer will we be dependent on our ability to persuade or threaten people to get vaccinated. By placing aerosol dispensers of FDA approved experimental vaccines in key gathering places like food stores, medical facilities, indoor sports arenas, airports, and public transit people can be painlessly vaccinated without their knowledge and 100% compliance achieved." Dr. Anthony Fauci, the world's leading expert on health said "I wish...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has delivered a recommendation to the Drug Enforcement Administration on marijuana policy, and Senate leaders hailed it Wednesday as a first step toward easing federal restrictions on the drug. HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said Wednesday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that the agency has responded to President Joe Biden’s request “to provide a scheduling recommendation for marijuana to the DEA.” “We’ve worked to ensure that a scientific evaluation be completed and shared expeditiously,” he added. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement that HHS had recommended that...

Becerra’s failure to reappoint Fauci in 2021 means “every action he took is potentially invalid.” Xavier Becerra, Joe Biden’s Health and Human Services Secretary, failed to reappoint 14 National Institutes of Health directors, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), charges a July 7 letter from the House Energy and. Commerce Committee. The failure could have “grave implications” for the actions of Dr. Fauci during his “unlawful tenure.” According to Section 2033 of the 21st Century Cures Act, titled “Increasing Accountability at the National Institutes of Health,” Fauci’s five-year term expired on...

Despite two circuit courts ruling against HHS regulations seeking to compel genital mutilation surgeries by health care providers, HHS secretary Xavier Becerra threatens to find ways around the judicial restraints. Biden HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra threatens states and organizations that don't provide sex reassignment surgeries and puberty blockers for minors: "If you want that Medicaid dollar to come to your state, we're going to make sure you check the box." pic.twitter.com/YtwZXBEBfM — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 26, 2023Is there any other life-altering, irreversible change that the federal government wants children to be able to decide on by themselves?Is there any...

Tara Lee Rodas, HHS Whistleblower, Federal Inspector General Employee, testifies before the House Judiciary Committee, 4/26/23 (Credit: House Judiciary Committee/YouTube) A whistleblower from the Department of Health and Human Services, Tara Lee Rodas, delivered bombshell testimony to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Wednesday in which she described the heartbreaking story of exploited children entering through our porous southern border.The hearing, called “The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children,” had already gotten off to an eventful start earlier in the day when Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) made a fool out of himself for...

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra violated the Hatch Act after he advocated for the election of a Democrat, a new investigation found. Special Counsel Henry J. Kerner said in a letter to President Joe Biden that Becerra spoke “in his official capacity” at an awards gala in September of 2022, breaking the law. “As explained in the accompanying report, OSC concluded that Secretary Becerra violated the Hatch Act by expressing support for Senator Alex Padilla’s reelection while speaking in his official capacity at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Annual Awards Gala on September 15, 2022,” Kerner wrote. “In...

The Biden administration is getting ready to argue that taxpayer dollars should be used to pay for children to undergo so-called “gender transitions.” According to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, the Biden administration believes that “all children and adults should be afforded life-saving, medically necessary care” and “payers, both public and private, should cover treatments which medical experts have determined to be medically necessary.” Becerra revealed this position in written testimony to Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.), which was obtained by The Daily Caller.This position signals that the Biden administration is prepared to go after states that are protecting...

The US Department of Defense (DOD) has mandated that beginning on Wednesday, November 30th, all Department of Defense personnel, service members, DOD civilians, contractors, military trainees, family members, and visitors to the Davis, Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson will be required to wear a mask again when in any building on the installation. This is despite the near 100% vaccinated status of these personnel. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin explained that "since the vaccines don't appear to provide the promised protection we must establish a second line of defense against the transmission of this deadly disease." US Secretary of...

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra is apparently advising Americans who got a coronavirus jab as recently as two months ago to get the “updated” shot now as well. “An updated COVID vaccine can help protect you from the worst outcomes of COVID,” Becerra said this week, urging those who got their coronavirus shot over two months ago to get another one. “If it’s been over 2 months since your last dose, make a plan to get one now,” he wrote: An updated COVID vaccine can help protect you from the worst outcomes of COVID. If it’s...

The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra extended the COVID emergency declaration., "I know that the President said the pandemic is over, but the emergency declaration allows us to bypass statutory law if we feel it would be beneficial," the Secretary pointed out. The House Health Subcommittee's Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-Ken) castigated Becerra's action, calling it "a refusal to learn from previous mistakes. The arbitrary rulings under emergency powers cost our economy trillions of dollars, worsened the health of Americans, and trampled on our basic freedoms. We need to end, not extend this dangerous vehicle...

For the last 18 months or so since the Capitol riot, Republicans have been treated to a chorus of hypocritical lectures from Democrats, their NeverTrump allies, and the mainstream media about how it is unconscionable and un-American to “disrespect our sacred institutions” and “undermine our democracy” by doing things Democrats have done in the past like question election results.Not surprisingly, those “rules” magically fly right out the window when these same Democrats are hit with election results they don’t like or a judicial ruling on which they don’t agree, something we’ve seen play out on a national level in a...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Democrat Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) violated drug reimbursement rules for low-income patients in a blistering decision that the media is largely ignoring.President Donald J. Trump was in an epic battle with the HHS for his entire administration, wanting the massive and overblown agency to make better choices to serve the American people, and the left absolutely freaked out at the notion that a Government institution was not just a jobs program for them and their cronies- but was actually meant to serve the American people- effectively.He was so...

On Thursday's "Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt," long time Democratic political strategist Carville said he has an idea on how to revitalize 2022 election prospects for his Party: make it legal to punch people who are not vaccinated. "I wish what they'd do is pass a law to make you immune from liability if you punch some unvaccinated person right in the face, which I'd really like to do," Carville said. "If you ask me what's my first reaction to you if you're not vaccinated, you don't have any medical reason not to be, you're a...

Joe Biden has a habit of nominating partisan hack politicians for jobs for which they are entirely unqualified. I am loath to think of even one who has been a success but there have been lots of failures. Xavier Becerra and Alejandro Mayorkas are two of these abysmal failures. It's gotten so bad that even the puppet masters in the White House are getting bugged by it. Xavier BecerraWhite House officials have grown so frustrated with top health official Xavier Becerra as the pandemic rages on that they have openly mused about who might be better in the job, although...

An experiment demonstrating how injections of blood from young mice into older mice had miraculous rejuvenating effects on the brains and bodies of these older mice is sparking interest in trying this out on humans.Secretary of Health and Human Service Xavier Becerra called this experience “intriguing. It could be that the ‘fountain of youth’ has been within us all along. It may be possible for us to prolong the lives and heath of important members of our society by extracting blood from children and injecting it into worthy recipients.” Becerra speculated that “a first beneficiary could very well be President...

The Senate confirmed California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, 50–49, in the closest confirmation vote a Biden cabinet nominee has seen. All but one Republican [Susan Collins] opposed Becerra’s confirmation. Becerra, a pro-abortion former U.S. representative widely criticized for lacking health experience, is the only cabinet member of the 20 so far confirmed who was not favorably recommended after their committee hearing. The Finance Committee was deadlocked 14–14 on approving him, which forced Democrats to vote on discharging his nomination from the committee. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on the...

HHS nom's wife paid tens of thousands of dollars by health care group The wife of Joe Biden's controversial top health care nominee sits on the board of a medical advocacy group that promoted her husband's nomination without disclosing her position. Carolina Reyes, the wife of California attorney general and nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, joined the board of directors of the California Health Care Foundation in 2017 shortly after Becerra's transition from the House of Representatives to the California attorney general's office. The foundation is a nonprofit with the stated mission of...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) declared Tuesday that the only experience President Joe Biden’s Health and Human Services (HHS) nominee, Xavier Becerra, has with “health care is that he sued the Little Sisters of the Poor” as a “trial lawyer.” Cruz insisted Becerra is an example of an “extreme nominee,” noting “the Biden Administration likes to talk about their science based [politics], and their priority of stopping COVID.” “Well, Becerra has no background in virology; he never worked at a pharmaceutical company, and his only health care experience is that he sued the Little Sisters of the Poor,” Cruz pointed out....

President Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, lied before Senate lawmakers Wednesday, claiming he had never sued nuns. “I have never sued the nuns, any nuns,” Becerra testified before the Senate Finance Committee. “I’ve never sued any affiliation of nuns, and my actions have always been directed at the federal agencies.” As California attorney general, however, Becerra weaponized the full power of the administrative state to sue the Little Sister of the Poor, a religious order of nuns who run homes for the elderly poor, to mandate compliance with Obamacare’s contraceptive...