of the united states senate, there's a reason not to be so happy, and that's why i look forward to very soon casting my vote to confirm xavier becerra to lead the department of health and human servicesone of the most qualified and forward-thinking minds that will have ever run the department of health and human services. but today republicans are using this confirmation vote to continue their agenda of obstruction, deflecting attention away from the nominee who will be the head of the chief federal agency responding to the coronavirus crisis, all to revive an unnecessary, blatantly political debate on reproductive rights. this ridiculous delay tactic highlights how out of touch with the american people republicans are, their antichoice rhetoric is on full display here on the senate floor anded isly it is not new. they want to roll back, roe v. wade, they want to criminalize abortion care, they want the government to control women and their bodies, they want to roll back title 9 protections for women on university campuses and completely gutted title 10 program to fund health care providers like planned parenthood. there is an -- by confirming justices kneel gorsuch and brett kavanau

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floor of the united states senate there is a reason not to be so happy, and that's why i look forward to very soon casting my vote to confirm teetwelve to lead the department of health and human services one of the most qualified and forward thinking minds that will have ever run the department of health and human services. but today republicans are using this confirmation vote to continue the agenda of obstruction deflecting attention away from the nominee who will be the head of the chief federal agency responding to the coronavirus crisis to revive anht unnecessary blatantly political debate on reproductive rights. this ridiculous delay tactic only highlights how out of step the american people the senate republicans are. antichoice, anti- woman anti- rhetoric is on full display and sadly it is not new. they want to rollback roe vs wade income allies abortion care, they want the government to control women and their bodies. they want to rollback title ix protections for women on university campuses and completely get title x programs to find critical providers like planned parenthood. republicans have put in place the antichoice majority by confirming justices neil gore such and ju

enforcement seat was vacated by javier or viscera, who was recently confirmed to lead the department of health and human services. bonds is the first filipino american state legislator in california and would be the state's first filipino eggy. if confirmed, newsome faced mounting pressure to name an asian american to the post in the wake of a wave of anti asian incidents that will be one of my top priorities. to make sure that we protect those. who are facing the forces of hate, and that we hold accountable. those who would perpetrate hate violence before he was elected to the assembly. bonta surdas, deputy city attorney for san francisco, he's the son of civil rights activists who worked to organize farmworkers in the central valley. they taught me to fight injustice. to right wrongs and to help people. wouldn't be here today

>> chris, the minors who are arriving and who are placed in the department of health and human services facilities are tested. they are all tested, isolated and quarantined. our covid-19 protocols that are administered by the department of health and human services are operated very efficiently. we also i should say work very closely with local officials in texas, with local organizations to also test, isolate and quarantine children and we offer reimbursement, 100% from fema and i do hope that governor abbott reconsiders his position of not allowing those local organizations and local officials to be reimbursed 100% by the federal government. that's all in the service of the public health imperative. chris: excuse me, sir. i want to put up what president biden has done on immigration policy in just his first two months in office. he halted part of title 42 to allow unaccompanied minors to stay in the u.s. during the pandemic. he ended the provision that asylum seekers must remain in mexico while their cases are being heard. and he suspended the safe third country agreements to share as

of health and human services. with $1.3 trillion of spending in health and human services, that department has the largest budget of the entire executive branch. in fact, if we were to compare the budget, the budget just of h.h.s. to other nations' g.d.p.'s, h.h.s. would rank among the top ten in the world. the size of this department is significant and their responsibility is even greater. whoever sees this -- oversees this department has a big impact on our country, our economy, the lives of all americans, including those of the unborn. this is exactly why i'm deeply concerned with president biden's pick of attorney general xavier becerra to lead h.h.s. mr. becerra has spent his career supporting divisive policies that don't resonate with the majority of americans. the secretary of h.h.s. has massive authority to steer the future of health care in our country and someone who has made a career out of defending the abortion industry and promoting other liberal policies like free health care for illegal immigrants should not be at the helm of this department. i'm concerned that the attorney general becerra will use

developed nearly 6000 federal personnel including fema, active-duty military, and department of human health and human services to support vaccination and serve as vaccinate hours putting the needle into the arms. were also supporting the vaccines to community health centers, and treat those who have been the hardest hit. the hardest hit and suffered the most. especially black latino and native americans in our rural communities. this is important. we believe in speed and efficiency must be matched with fairness and equity. vice president and harris and i took a tour in arizona not long ago. one of the nurses on the tour injecting people and giving vaccinations said that he shot his like administering a dose of hope. that is how she phrased it. behind these 100 million shots, are millions of lives changed from the people receiving that dose of hope. grandparents can hug their grandchildren again. frontline workers who can show up at the job without the same fear the used to have. teachers, they can head back into the classroom with confidence. these milestones are significant accomplishments. though we have mu

dr rachel levine is now assistant health secretary in the department of health and human services. e is a pediatrician who has served as pennsylvania's top public health official. since 2017 now to the latest on the crisis at the border today, president biden appointed vice president kamala harris. toe lead the diplomatic effort with mexico and other central american countries in effort to try to stem the flow of migrants to the us mexico border are fox news. lauren blanchard tonight has our report. president biden meeting with his top immigration advisers wednesday. new surge we're dealing with now starting with the last administration, but it's our responsibility to deal with it humanely. also tapping vice president kamila harris to lead us efforts to stem migration from mexico and the north. triangle needless to say, the work will not be easy. the president and vice president have faced criticism for not yet making a trip to the border to see the situation for themselves. and for those so far lack of access for the media to see how the migrants are being cared for. we're also rem

department of health health and human services boosting that it had denied hundreds of millions of brazilians a jab. the office of global affairs used diplomatic relations in the americas region to mitigate efforts by states including cuba venezuela and russia who are working to increase their influence in the region to the detriment of u.s. safety and security examples include using the office of global affairs health a touchy office to persuade brazil to reject the russian copied 19 vaccine and that is what is essentially a grand perversion of simple human decency and moral values they argue that brazilians vaccinating themselves with a russian vaccine is apparently a threat to u.s. security they are explaining how they just say that it is let me put that in perspective for you we will see and hear of the daily death tallies right so one in 5 of those deaths are happening right now in brazil 20 percent of all couvade deaths worldwide are in brazil and these people a boosting that they help prevent inoculations in brazil with one of the and accused russia of undermining inoculation efforts i

and outbreaks across the globe, the obama-biden administration failed to plug the department of health and human services into the intelligence community the way that it should have been done. the current pandemic exemplifies the need to have a robust intelligence operation that includes the department of health and human services. as pathogenic threats to our homeland and our people increase and become more complex, the federal government must prepare well in advance for a very quick response. in order to accomplish that task, the government must focus on the seamless commune television -- seamless communication that must exist between and among the various departments and agencies. the federal government must take a whole of government approach. one serious barrier is that seamless communication is overclassification. that's a serious barrier we find too much in government but particularly when it deals with the pandemic, it becomes a problem that can cause a lot of lives. in january of 2020 when reports began to circulate about covid, i instructed my oversight and investigative staff to get a classifi

rachel levine is now assistant health secretary in the department of health and human services. e's a pediatrician who has served as pennsylvania's top public health official. since when. 17 transgender people at allies say it's a historic moment for the transgender community. it comes as a number of states are considering bills restricting sports or medical options for transgender youth, soccer superstar meghan repeat no met with president biden today at the white house to mark equal payday, repeat no discussed the widespread gender pay gap earlier in the day, she testified about gender discrimination and pay discrepancies. hearing of the house committee it ellen oversight and reform, and she says the issue is a personal one. and despite those winds i've been devalued. i've been disrespected. and dismissed because i am a woman. i'm still paid less than men who do the same job that i do. there's not a single thing. a man can do that a woman can't do as well or better, not a single thing. figure so women are being disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, with some estimates sh

of access to transportation and there are community groups that can help and are trying to help now. so our fourth announcement today is that i'm sending out millions of dollars to the department of health and human services to provide assistance, including transportation, so more vulnerable seniors and people with disabilities can get their shots, so they can get help to physically get there to get the shot. neighbors helping neighbors. what a truly american effort. we cannot let transportation be a barrier to any senior vaccination. so where does this put us? we are making progress on vaccinations, but cases are rising and the virus is spreading into any places still. that is why today, i'm taking the steps to make our american turnaround story, our vaccination program, move even faster. thanks to all the work we have done these past 10 weeks, the steps i'm announcing today, with them, i am pleased to announce that at least 90% of all adults in this country will be eligible to be vaccinated by april 19, just three weeks from now as we have the vaccines for the vast, vast majority of adults. you will not have to wait until may 1. you will be eligible on april 19. finally, 10% will be eligible no -- the f

of our covid-19 response, and dr. david kessler and his team at the department of health and human services. when i came into office, we began working with the team of j&j to accelerate and add capacity to their manufacturing and production efforts. it quickly became clear that merck, one of the world's leading vaccine manufacturers, was in a position to be the partner we needed in this effort, in this wartime effort. i've not hesitated to use my power and the defense production act to expedite critical materials in vaccine production, such as equipment, machinery, and supplies. it's not just johnson & johnson and merck. pfizer, moderna also work closely with us to speed up delivery of millions more doses. the result is that we are now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every american adult by the end of may. months earlier than anyone expected. and today, i'm directing jeff and my hhs team to produce another 100 million doses and purchase another 100 moving doses of johnson & johnson vaccine. i'm doing this because this wartime effort, we need maximum flexibility. there's always a ch

nasa says the department of health and human services. ordinating to do a site assessment here and see if they can use certain facilities for future shelter space. nasa says this will not impact its ability to do primary missions. the advocacy group called siren held a protest in front as i said, of moffett field yesterday over 100 people showed up. protesters want to send a message to the biden administration saying they do not think it's ok to open a detention center here or anywhere for that matter. the u.s. customs and border protection says the number of people coming over the southwest border has continued to increase over the last year. there's also a growing number of children immigrating to the u.s. by themselves over the weekend. agents say they responded to over 200 families and unaccompanied children crossing the border in texas. this has been a major challenge for the biden administration taking on the restrictive immigration policies from the previous administration for the patrols believes there are many factors including th

department of health and human services who feel safe and your organization behind sputnik v. has come out and said what any reasonable person already knows this is a pandemic that is threatening and killing people equally. this is a threat to mankind it is above politics saving and we're talking here about medians of lives is paramount but the degree of cynicism and double standards here is astonishing see when it's about saving american lives they'll take all the help that they can get remember the russian planes carrying aid to new york last year oh they accepted that no threat to national security there apparently but brazilians vaccinating themselves of sputnik god forbid no no no america current allow brazilians to do that some western states are trying not only to politicize the humanitarian aspect of the fight against coronavirus but also to take advantage of the pandemic to punish governments they don't like i'm not sure i entirely agree with the russian foreign minister yes they are politicizing vaccination politicising lives that's obvious but i'm not entirely sure

we have somebody -- because it is essential we have somebody leading the department of health and human services but also with the other agencies, given the range of crises we're facing as a country. reporter: i have a question about minimum wage and the capitol hearings. would the president be open to sitting down with senate republicans who have offered support for a minimum wage hike that is below $50 an hour or is he -- [indiscernible] -- jen: he's been opening to hearing ideas from a range of members of both parties on a bunch of different topics. he's been clear that his proposal is to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour. to do it over a period of time which members of the senate, including progressive democrats like bernie sanders, also support. that's what he supports and that's what he proposed at this point in time. reporter: would he not entertain anything below $15 an hour? jen: he's happy to hear any ideas but i'm not going to negotiate from here obviously. he's been very clear public aand privately about his commitment to raising the minimum wage to $15. reporter: last week th