that was one of the first efforts out of our office in partnership with the human services agency to a live voice to those men and women who in the earliest days of the first shelter in place order wanted someone to talk to. we were all overwhelmed at the local level, state, and federal to answer the questions and a lot of people were really struggling just to get someone on the phone. and an email address or a voicemail is one thing, but we really found that people wanted to have someone that talk to. as soon as the shelter in place order went in place in mid march, we actually in our office stood up a hotline. we answer phone calls in seven different languages. if we can't get you live in your language, we will call you back in your language. organizations like mission, economic development agency, self-help for the elled elderly and help us with spanish, cantonese and mandarin. it is 415-701-4817 is the san francisco workforce hotline. there is no question that we won't do everything in our power and ability to answer whether that's applying for unemployment and maybe not getting

that is part of the human services agency and at this moment in time allocations for human services programs in general have gone up pretty substantially in california in recognition of what a hard time this is in the face of covid-19 and the associated recession. the human services agency as a whole has enough money to handle the reduction target that hsa has been given as part of the budget balancing process on a city-wide level. the agency reduction target was $7.3 million, and our growth in allocations has gone up more substantially than that. that is the good news. in this tough time we basically will not face cuts. the bad news is that we don't have too much room to move beyond that. i think the city has a big deficit. of course, covid-19 response is huge part of that. we will talk in this presentation about the part of the covid-19 response that is associated with the das budget. the feeding programs. as you can see on this slide, we numrated down to the dollar what our target is. $7.3 million in both years of the biennium. from the state budget substantial increases in allocations th

services, the human services agency with the department of human services under it was a source of confusion. now the department of human services has been renamed to the department of benefits and family support. to reflect what d.h.s. does, which provide the public benefit, safety net benefits to families and individuals as well as whole range the employment services. and then of course our child welfare system to protect kids from abuse and neglect. oece is the third leg. the employees serve 1 in 4 san fransiscans with a budget over $1 billion. we have over 60 plus community services or programs in the community. and hundreds of c.b.o. partners. so now, we're running into our investments for the department of benefits and families who are into d.l.m. we segregate by 94112 and 94132. lakeview and o.m.i. you can see the reach of our benefits, which are -- the acronyms are there. it's health insurance, healthcare, food support through the federal s.n.a.p. program, californians it's cal fresh and assistance for families

that is part of the human services agency and at this moment in time allocations for human services programshave gone up pretty substantially in california in recognition of what a hard time this is in the face of covid-19 and the associated recession. the human services agency as a whole has enough money to handle the reduction target that hsa has been given as part of the budget balancing process on a city-wide level. the agency reduction target was $7.3 million, and our growth in allocations has gone up more substantially than that. that is the good news. in this tough time we basically will not face cuts. the bad news is that we don't have too much room to move beyond that. i think the city has a big deficit. of course, covid-19 response is huge part of that. we will talk in this presentation about the part of the covid-19 response that is associated with the das budget. the feeding programs. as you can see on this slide, we numrated down to the dollar what our target is. $7.3 million in both years of the biennium. from the state budget substantial increases in allocations this year some

that is part of the human services agency and at this moment in time allocations for human services programsone up pretty substantially in california in recognition of what a hard time this is in the face of covid-19 and the associated recession. the human services agency as a whole has enough money to handle the reduction target that hsa has been given as part of the budget balancing process on a city-wide level. the agency reduction target was $7.3 million, and our growth in allocations has gone up more substantially than that. that is the good news. in this tough time we basically will not face cuts. the bad news is that we don't have too much room to move beyond that. i think the city has a big deficit. of course, covid-19 response is huge part of that. we will talk in this presentation about the part of the covid-19 response that is associated with the das budget. the feeding programs. as you can see on this slide, we numrated down to the dollar what our target is. $7.3 million in both years of the biennium. from the state budget substantial increases in allocations this year some incre

that was one of the first efforts out of our office in partnership with the human services agency toprovide a live voice to those men and women who in the earliest days of the first shelter in place order wanted someone to talk to. we were all overwhelmed at the local level, state, and federal to answer the questions and a lot of people were really struggling just to get someone on the phone. and an email address or a voicemail is one thing, but we really found that people wanted to have someone that talk to. as soon as the shelter in place order went in place in mid march, we actually in our office stood up a hotline. we answer phone calls in seven different languages. if we can't get you live in your language, we will call you back in your language. organizations like mission, economic development agency, self-help for the elled elderly and help us with spanish, cantonese and mandarin. it is 415-701-4817 is the san francisco workforce hotline. there is no question that we won't do everything in our power and ability to answer whether that's applying for unemployment and maybe not g

that was one of the first efforts out of our office in partnership with the human services agency to provide a live voice to those men and women who in the earliest days of the first shelter in place order wanted someone to talk to. we were all overwhelmed at the local level, state, and federal to answer the questions and a lot of people were really struggling just to get someone on the phone. and an email address or a voicemail is one thing, but we really found that people wanted to have someone that talk to. as soon as the shelter in place order went in place in mid march, we actually in our office stood up a hotline. we answer phone calls in seven different languages. if we can't get you live in your language, we will call you back in your language. organizations like mission, economic development agency, self-help for the elled elderly and help us with spanish, cantonese and mandarin. it is 415-701-4817 is the san francisco workforce hotline. there is no question that we won't do everything in our power and ability to answer whether that's applying for unemployment and maybe not

that was one of the first efforts out of our office in partnership with the human services agency toa live voice to those men and women who in the earliest days of the first shelter in place order wanted someone to talk to. we were all overwhelmed at the local level, state, and federal to answer the questions and a lot of people were really struggling just to get someone on the phone. and an email address or a voicemail is one thing, but we really found that people wanted to have someone that talk to. as soon as the shelter in place order went in place in mid march, we actually in our office stood up a hotline. we answer phone calls in seven different languages. if we can't get you live in your language, we will call you back in your language. organizations like mission, economic development agency, self-help for the elled elderly and help us with spanish, cantonese and mandarin. it is 415-701-4817 is the san francisco workforce hotline. there is no question that we won't do everything in our power and ability to answer whether that's applying for unemployment and maybe not getting t

and not just the usual health and human services agencies, which have always tended to down play the severity of the anti-vaxxine and anti-science movement always claiming it was fringe movement and we shouldn't give it oxygen because it will just make it worse. so we need to do that, but we need to bring in state department, homeland security. we need to bring in homeland security, multiple elements of the federal government. >> dr. peter hotez, you are brilliant, by the way, just want to let you know. despite what you say. >> that's kind. >> and we appreciate you weighing in on all of this, as we always do. thank you. >>> i want to bring in my panel, michael, jeff, and amanda. good to talk to you guys. welcome to you all. i wanted to get your reaction to what we have been reporting on throughout the last hour or so, which is this awful milestone we have now reached as we are coming up on a year with the coronavirus. and half a million americans now gone. >> yeah, i mean, it is unprecedented, yasmin. there is no way to make up for those lost during this pandemic because of the way i

that is part of the human services agency and at this moment in time allocations for human services programs in general have gone up pretty substantially in california in recognition of what a hard time this is in the face of covid-19 and the associated recession. the human services agency as a whole has enough money to handle the reduction target that hsa has been given as part of the budget balancing process on a city-wide level. the agency reduction target was $7.3 million, and our growth in allocations has gone up more substantially than that. that is the good news. in this tough time we basically will not face cuts. the bad news is that we don't have too much room to move beyond that. i think the city has a big deficit. of course, covid-19 response is huge part of that. we will talk in this presentation about the part of the covid-19 response that is associated with the das budget. the feeding programs. as you can see on this slide, we numrated down to the dollar what our target is. $7.3 million in both years of the biennium. from the state budget substantial increases in allocations th

it's one of the three independent depends within the human services agency. as we're part of the city sort of funded programs that receive vapiding directly from the general fund set asides, like the public education enrichment fund, now maybe prop-c. what we do as office of early care and education is that we're exclusively a ground making department. so unlike the benefits and family support and d.o.s. we actually do not provide any services in the community -- any direct services. we exclusively fund programs in the community. what i want to provide you is an overview who we fund both in the o.m.i. but specifically in the lakeview district. and which is -- i don't think i have to tell you this supervisor safai, but over all in the 94112 -- i know it's difficult to be aggregating the data right now into sort of census tracks. but overall, 94112 and 94132 has over 20% of children under 5 living in san francisco. so it's a very highly populated area with lots of little kids. and that makes us super excited about making the investments that we do in that neigh

the racial equity officer for our human services agency, a lot of you worked hard on it as well. we talked a little bit what was in that. the primary focus of this first piece of that plan is really thinking about our internal practices with respect to human resources and things like accessibility for staff and and sessbuilt for -- accessibility for clients. we are thinking about equity, inclusion, belonging, how we recruit and promote, disciplinary actions and taking a deep look at those to make sure we are equitable. our next phase of that work will include our community partners. one of the things that goes in that first phase is ensuring that we are going through the bias and equity training. as we mentioned when we had the presentation a few months ago, the commissioners will be included in that training as well as our staff. you will be hearing more about that. finally, in the equity area, one of the things we are doing is doing some deeper dives to get a better sense of the community needs. we will over the next few months we are going to have staff teams. we are going to

>>trent rhurer: thank you chair haney, executivedirector of human services agency .i do have to apologize in advance that i have a stop at one for an appointment at1:30 that i absolutely cannot miss . i do have janice levy who is our acting director of human services grant oversees all the operational stuff. i am going to go through the two slides that are very straightforward on our current updates and thenjanice is here and i can go through it . thank you. so just as a reminder chair haney since it was your ordinance but for the other members the emergency ordinance passed by the board in mid-december requires 60 percentbackfill . i'm pleased to say that you are doing a good job at meeting that goal and arein agreement . supervisor, with pursuing 100 percent . as of february 23 you can see on the slide we have backfilled 71 percent of the vacant and available units. moving 176 people and homeless individuals in and there's a public dashboard, you can see that link there that recognizes, it took a while to get this up but it's detailed and will provide you an ongoin

that was one of the first efforts out of our office in partnership with the human services agency to provide a live voice to those men and women who in the earliest days of the first shelter in place order wanted someone to talk to. we were all overwhelmed at the local level, state, and federal to answer the questions and a lot of people were really struggling just to get someone on the phone. and an email address or a voicemail is one thing, but we really found that people wanted to have someone that talk to. as soon as the shelter in place order went in place in mid march, we actually in our office stood up a hotline. we answer phone calls in seven different languages. if we can't get you live in your language, we will call you back in your language. organizations like mission, economic development agency, self-help for the elled elderly and help us with spanish, cantonese and mandarin. it is 415-701-4817 is the san francisco workforce hotline. there is no question that we won't do everything in our power and ability to answer whether that's applying for unemployment and maybe not

assignment over the -- nearly a year -- has been -- offered a position full time with the human services agencyor the city. continuing on doing his d.s.w. work. the first day with them was this past monday, so we very much wish him the best but we're sad to see him go but his skills will be well used by the city going forward. that's all i wanted to report. >> clerk: (indiscernible) i wish -- >> i wish tommy all the best and i know that he'll make a huge impact but, yeah, i'm sad that he's not going to stay. but pass along my thanks for his stellar work. >> thank you. >> chair ambrose: thank you. and also i think we all extend our welcome to commissioner bell. thank you very much for joining us. okay, we need to ask for public comment on this item because that's what we do. so, moderator, if you could please ask for public comment. >> you're muted. >> chair ambrose: you're muted. >> clerk: chatting away like a champion here. excuse me, folks. [laughter] we are checking to see if there are callers in the queue. for those already on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates that yo

that was one of the first efforts out of our office in partnership with the human services agency to provide a live voice to those men and women who in the earliest days of the first shelter in place order wanted someone to talk to. we were all overwhelmed at the local level, state, and federal to answer the questions and a lot of people were really struggling just to get someone on the phone. and an email address or a voicemail is one thing, but we really found that people wanted to have someone that talk to. as soon as the shelter in place order went in place in mid march, we actually in our office stood up a hotline. we answer phone calls in seven different languages. if we can't get you live in your language, we will call you back in your language. organizations like mission, economic development agency, self-help for the elled elderly and help us with spanish, cantonese and mandarin. it is 415-701-4817 is the san francisco workforce hotline. there is no question that we won't do everything in our power and ability to answer whether that's applying for unemployment and maybe not

that was one of the first efforts out of our office in partnership with the human services agency to provide a live voice to those men and women who in the earliest days of the first shelter in place order wanted someone to talk to. we were all overwhelmed at the local level, state, and federal to answer the questions and a lot of people were really struggling just to get someone on the phone. and an email address or a voicemail is one thing, but we really found that people wanted to have someone that talk to. as soon as the shelter in place order went in place in mid march, we actually in our office stood up a hotline. we answer phone calls in seven different languages. if we can't get you live in your language, we will call you back in your language. organizations like mission, economic development agency, self-help for the elled elderly and help us with spanish, cantonese and mandarin. it is 415-701-4817 is the san francisco workforce hotline. there is no question that we won't do everything in our power and ability to answer whether that's applying for unemployment and maybe not

program's operation and i want to appreciate the command center especially the staff at the human services agencyand department of homelessness for designing and implementing this program that has expanded our city's capacity to care for people experiencing homelessness and has undoubtedly saved lives. as we ramp up our efforts to house individualswho have been able to shelter temporarily and hotels , their work continues to be more important than ever and i want to continue to partner with you both on this piece of legislation and beyond. i know this program is and has been very familiar to the board of supervisors. in december this board adopted an emergency ordinance to keep the shelter in place program operating nearly at full capacity a time when the program was at risk of a rapid wind down from the funds disappearing. that codifies the city's commitment to offer housing resources to clients in the hotels that have been shelteringthere for months and ensure that we continue to bring people inside the hotel backfilling rooms that were vacated at 60 percent capacity . that ordinance was adopte

>>trent rhurer: thank you chair haney, executivedirector of human services agency .i do have to apologize in advance that i have a stop at one for an appointment at1:30 that i absolutely cannot miss . i do have janice levy who is our acting director of human services grant oversees all the operational stuff. i am going to go through the two slides that are very straightforward on our current updates and thenjanice is here and i can go through it . thank you. so just as a reminder chair haney since it was your ordinance but for the other members the emergency ordinance passed by the board in mid-december requires 60 percentbackfill . i'm pleased to say that you are doing a good job at meeting that goal and arein agreement . supervisor, with pursuing 100 percent . as of february 23 you can see on the slide we have backfilled 71 percent of the vacant and available units. moving 176 people and homeless individuals in and there's a public dashboard, you can see that link there that recognizes, it took a while to get this up but it's detailed and will provide you an ongoin

>>trent rhurer: thank you chair haney, executivedirector of human services agency . i do have to apologize in advance that i have a stop at one for an appointment at1:30 that i absolutely cannot miss . i do have janice levy who is our acting director of human services grant oversees all the operational stuff. i am going to go through the two slides that are very straightforward on our current updates and thenjanice is here and i can go through it . thank you. so just as a reminder chair haney since it was your ordinance but for the other members the emergency ordinance passed by the board in mid-december requires 60 percentbackfill . i'm pleased to say that you are doing a good job at meeting that goal and arein agreement . supervisor, with pursuing 100 percent . as of february 23 you can see on the slide we have backfilled 71 percent of the vacant and available units. moving 176 people and homeless individuals in and there's a public dashboard, you can see that link there that recognizes, it took a while to get this up but it's detailed and will provide you an ongoi

texans on thursday, the department of health and human services declared a public health emergency for the state and biden is calling on other agencies to also step up and help i've health and human services hhs housing and urban development. us department of agriculture. the department of defense to identify other resources. other resources that can provide an address. the growing need. none of this had to happen texas democratic congressman joaquin castro says the state would need to rely on washington if state leaders had done their job there's been an utter lack of preparation the left. >>of the state's power system by texas republican dan crenshaw says the shift to renewable energy is to blame tweeting had been more relying on the wind turbines that froze the outages would have been much worse. in washington, i'm anna wiernicki. >>all switching to our weather here in the bay area, this is a live at the embarcadero the bay bridge in the background there they actually figure out just lawrence karnow is here looking at that large hail is feel how our weather is you feel for those folks down in texas in so many other parts of the co

assignment over the -- nearly a year -- has been -- offered a position full time with the human services agencythe city. continuing on doing his d.s.w. work. the first day with them was this past monday, so we very much wish him the best but we're sad to see him go but his skills will be well used by the city going forward. that's all i wanted to report. >> clerk: (indiscernible) i wish -- >> i wish tommy all the best and i know that he'll make a huge impact but, yeah, i'm sad that he's not going to stay. but pass along my thanks for his stellar work. >> thank you. >> chair ambrose: thank you. and also i think we all extend our welcome to commissioner bell. thank you very much for joining us. okay, we need to ask for public comment on this item because that's what we do. so, moderator, if you could please ask for public comment. >> you're muted. >> chair ambrose: you're muted. >> clerk: chatting away like a champion here. excuse me, folks. [laughter] we are checking to see if there are callers in the queue. for those already on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates that you h

texans on thursday, the department of health and human services declared a public health emergency for the state and biden is calling on other agencies to also step up and help i've directed health and human services hhs housing and urban development. us department of agriculture. the department of defense to identify other resources. other resources that can provide an address. the growing need. none of this had to happen texas democratic congressman joaquin castro says the state would need to rely on washington. if state leaders had done their job there's been an utter lack of preparation the west. >>of the state's power system by texas republican dan crenshaw says the shift to renewable energy is to blame tweeting had great been more relying on the wind turbines that froze the outages would have been much worse in washington, i'm anna wiernicki. >>recovers parts of the northeast now are bracing for more snow. yeah we have escaped the worst of that here in the bay area for sure our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow a look at what we can expect here in the bay feel kind of lucky. her. yeah we miss this one and thank goodness but b

assignment over the -- nearly a year -- has been -- offered a position full time with the human services agencythe city. continuing on doing his d.s.w. work. the first day with them was this past monday, so we very much wish him the best but we're sad to see him go but his skills will be well used by the city going forward. that's all i wanted to report. >> clerk: (indiscernible) i wish -- >> i wish tommy all the best and i know that he'll make a huge impact but, yeah, i'm sad that he's not going to stay. but pass along my thanks for his stellar work. >> thank you. >> chair ambrose: thank you. and also i think we all extend our welcome to commissioner bell. thank you very much for joining us. okay, we need to ask for public comment on this item because that's what we do. so, moderator, if you could please ask for public comment. >> you're muted. >> chair ambrose: you're muted. >> clerk: chatting away like a champion here. excuse me, folks. [laughter] we are checking to see if there are callers in the queue. for those already on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates that you h

from the department of health and human services and personnel from the federal emergency agency. fema, the defense department, national guard. we're lining up thousands of vaccinators because it's one thing to have the vaccine and it's very different to get net someone's arm. we're also creating more places for people to get vaccination named. we've provided $3 million to states, and trikes, to create hundreds of new vaccination centers and ramp up existing one. right here in michigan with governor whitmer, fema has supplied tense of millions of dollars. at the national guard to the expo center here in kalamazoo. the center in detroit to parking lots and churches across the sate sca state. we work with governors in california, texas, new york and more to come to set up mass vaccines sites and stadiums that will be open 24/7 and arenas and community centers. on top of the federal government covering the full cost for the state' use of the national guard for pandemic efforts and you suggested i do that a while ago and we did it. we also sharmentstarmented shipping vaccines directly

texans on thursday, the department of health and human services declared a public health emergency for the state and biden is calling on other agencies to also step up and help i've directed health and human services hhs housing and urban development. us department of agriculture. the department of defense to identify other resources. other resources that can provide an address. the growing need. none of this had to happen texas democratic congressman joaquin castro says the state would need to rely on washington. if state leaders had done their job there's been an utter lack of preparation the west. >>of the state's power system by texas republican dan crenshaw says the shift to renewable energy is to blame tweeting had a great been more relying on the wind turbines that froze the outages would have been much worse in washington, i'm anna wiernicki. >>well now we want to check on what's happening with that dangerous storm system is affecting texas and the lawrence karnow has the details aren't guys you dallas texas for the first day since last saturday finally came above freezing they topped out at 33 degrees right now they're sitti

texans on thursday, the department of health and human services declared a public health emergency for the state and biden is calling on other agencies to also step up and help i've directed health and human services hhs housing and urban development. us department of agriculture. the department of defense to identify other resources. other resources that can provide an address. the growing need. none of this had to happen texas democratic congressman joaquin castro says the state wouldn't need to rely on washington. if state leaders had done their job there's been an utter lack of preparation the left. >>of the state's power system by texas republican dan crenshaw says the shift to renewable energy is to blame tweeting had been more relying on the wind turbines that froze the outages would have been much worse. in washington, i'm anna wiernicki. >>we'll switch gears now and talk about our forecast as we take a live look outside here at a beautiful shot at the golden gate bridge, no drizzle here anymore today was very gloomy on the right in but much better picture here now our meteorologist mabrisa rodriguez is here with our forecast

texans on thursday, the department of health and human services declared a public health emergency for the state and biden is calling on other agencies and human services hhs housing and urban development. us department of agriculture. the department of defense to identify other resources, other resources that can provide an address. the growing need. none of this had to happen texas democratic congressman joaquin castro says the state would need to rely on washington. if state leaders had done their job there's been an utter lack of preparation and the left. >>of the state's power system by texas republican dan crenshaw says the shift to renewable energy is to blame tweeting had been more relying on the wind turbines that froze the outages would have been much worse in washington, i'm anna wiernicki. >>and coming up on the kron 4 morning news, the baseball season is on hold and san jose state university will find out why the school is blaming student athletes for the pause student athletes for the pause in play that's coming up. ♪ ♪ are you ready to join the duers? those who du more with less asthma. thanks to dupixent. the add-on t

natural disasters from the federal emergency management agency, fema and we commissioned our commission corps from the department of health and human services and the defense department, including the national guard, supplying vaccinators and lining up thousands more to do the vaccinations and also setting up more places for people to get vaccinated. oz of today we provided $3.8 billion to states, territories and tribes to create new vaccination centers and ramp up the existing one already, working with governors across the country in red and blue states to bolster their efforts to stand up hundreds of vaccination centers from stadiums to community centers, houses of worship, large parking lots, we're providing personnel and equipment and covering the costs for the states, including for the use of their national guard, which they're incredible. today jill and i, or i should say tomorrow jill and i will transfer to houston, texas, to tour one of the first federal mass vaccination centers and to thank everyone involved. this is an example of the kind of partnership between federal, state and local governments and public and private partners,

human services. which is the nation's largest federal agency by budget. as secretary, he will lead the nation's top health agency, charged with enhancing the health and well-being of all americans. he comes well-equipped to do an excellent job and personally, i am very proud of him. so it is with great pleasure that i am here both to endorse and to support his candidacy. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you so much, senator feinstein. great to have you with us. and now we will turn to senator sabia for his introduction. >> thank you, chair, ranking member, for inviting me to address the committee today to also introduce my friend, california attorney general xavier becerra. it is an honor to introduce a fellow californian for this important post. our nation is going through one of the toughest times we have faced in recent memory, the covid-19 pandemic has taken an incredible toll on our lives and on communities across the united states. as we all know, covid-19 deaths in the united states just surpassed half a million people. the devastation has disprop

human services. which is the nation's largest federal agency by budget. as secretary, he will lead the nation's top health agency, charged with enhancing the health and well-being of all americans. he comes well-equipped to do an excellent job and personally, i am very proud of him. so it is with great pleasure that i am here both to endorse and to support his candidacy. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you so much, senator feinstein. great to have you with us. and now we will turn to senator sabia for his introduction. >> thank you, chair, ranking member, for inviting me to address the committee today to also introduce my friend, california attorney general xavier becerra. it is an honor to introduce a fellow californian for this important post. our nation is going through one of the toughest times we have faced in recent memory, the covid-19 pandemic has taken an incredible toll on our lives and on communities across the united states. as we all know, covid-19 deaths in the united states just surpassed half a million people. the devastation has disprop

personnel from our commission corps at the department of health and human services and personnel from the federal emergency management agency, fema, defense department, national guard. we are literally lining up thousands of vaccinators because it's one thing to have the vaccine. it's very different to get it into someone's arms. we're also creating more places for people to get vaccinated. we've provided $3 billion to states, territories and tribes to create hundreds of new vaccination centers to ramp up -- and ramp up the exist be running that are there. right here in michigan, fema has appropriate vieded tens of millions to bolster the states' community vaccination centers from the national guard here in kalamazoo to the tcf center in detroit to parking lots and churches across the state. we've worked with governors in california, texas, new york and for come to stand up massive vaccine sites and stadiums that will be open 24/7 and arenas and commune centers. it's an effort on top of the federal government covering the full cost for the state's use of their energies for pandemic efforts, and you suggested that i do that

agency. the secretary of health and human services controls the largest spending of any, of any secretary inwe have with javier becerra is he's taken very radical, far-left positions. he supports open borders, literally has pushed as the attorney general of california to decriminalize illegal border crossings. he supports taxpayer funding for illegal immigrants who come into our country. and then on the issue of life, i'm pro-life, mike. we need to stand for the most vulnerable. he's taken the most radical positions as it relates to abortion and protecting little babies. so he's so out of step with the mainstream of this country, it's one more example of president biden putting very far-left, virtually radicals as nominees -- mike: does he get through, sir? yes or no? >> i think he probably gets through by just a few votes. mike: okay. senator steve daines, great state of montana, thanks so much for your time, sir. >> thanks, mike. mike: rising tensions in the middle east amid the fallout of the airstrikes against iran. how iran is responding next. ♪ ♪ for every idea out there, that gets the

adult protective services agencies across my state are grappling with this day after date. the state department of human services have done an exemplary job given the circumstances. they have coordinated efforts with agencies across the state to address the crisis and protect our seniors. new jersey received $2.4 million in grants to enhance adult protective services, covid-19 response when the partial funding passed in the december omnibus bill. elder abuse is not unique to new jersey, which is why we have to fully fund the programs under elder justice act. it is a key to better coordination of federal responses to elder abuse and additional protections for residents of long-term care facilities now and after this crisis is over. together, these activities are an essential step towards a comprehensive response. must be committed to ensuring the dignity of older adults and people with disabilities. we have a few more important responsibilities in protecting the most vulnerable among us. i don't think we have a more important responsibility than that. i urge support for this critical measure and i thank

and that includes the department of health and human services and other relevant government agencies and partners abroad. the decision by the previous administration to withdraw from the world health organization put our country at a disadvantage in terms of the coronavirus. in the isolation approach didn't do us more harm than good. a. >> so thank you for that question. have been involved with the world health organization for the past 15 years or so . that i've working countries around the world. and again, as i said in my testimony, and quite clear that we have to consider any infectious disease in any new pathogen anywhere to be consequential. it and we have a global response. in terms of it's always difficult to go backwards and say, what would have happened if. but certainly now, we should be cooperating solely with will help organization . we should be setting up these global surveillance networks in the influenza surveillance network is a model . and we must work together and get vaccines to everyone in the world or we all will remain a risk of sars infections. >> thank you .

personnel from our commission core at the department of health and human services and personnel from the federal emergency management agencyma defense department, national guard. we are literally lining up thousands of vaccinators because it's one thing to have the vaccine. it is very different to get it in someone's arms. we are also creating more place for people to get vaccinated we provided $3 billion to states, territories and tribes to create hundreds of new vaccination centers and ramp up the existing ones that are there. right here in michigan, with governor whittmer, people ha has provided tens of millions of dollars to polster the state's community vaccination centers. from the national guard at the exp.o. center at kalamazoo, the tcf center in detroit to parking lots and churches across the state. we have worked with governors in california, texas, new york, and more to come, to stand up massive mass vaccine sites in stadiums that will be open 24/7. in arenas and community centers. it is an effort that's on top of the federal government, covering the full cost for the state's use of their national guards for pan

willingness to continue public service on behalf of the nation by running a major agency of our government that's so important these days and that's the department of health and human services. i also want to thank you for the commitment of your family which i know is a major commitment by any family when you're in public service like you have been all these years. and yours is a great american story. i wanted to start with the issue of home and community based services. we know that one of the real tragedies within the larger tragedy of the pandemic now that we have reached that awful, awful number of 500,000 deaths is a high percentage of those deaths at last count more than 170,000 residents and workers dying of the virus who were in nursing homes, living or working in nursing homes or other long-term care settings. one way to protect these populations is with a responsive and robust support system that provides quality home and community-based services. we know that those who do this work in the home or home and community-based services are frontline workers. they're heroic. and the folks that do this work support older adults in our communities and they also s

agency, fema. and we commissioned our commission corps from the department of health and human services including thenational guard supplying vaccinators. we're lining up thousands more to do the vaccinations. we're also setting up more places for people to get vaccinated. as of today, we provided $3.8 billion to states, territories and tribes to create hundreds of new vaccination centers and ramp up the existing ones there already. we're working governors across the country in red and blue states to bolster the efforts to stand up hundreds of vaccination centers from stadiums to community centers, houses of worship, large parking lots. we're providing personnel and equipment and covering the cost for the states, including for the use of their national guard which is incredible. today, jill and i, i should say, tomorrow, jill and i will travel on houston, texas, to tour one of the first federal mask vaccination centers and to thank everyone involved. this is an example of the kind of partnership between federal, state and local governments and private and public partners to get this job done. we also

agency, fema. and we commissioned our commissioned from the department and health and human services including nationalwe're relying on thousands more to do the vaccinations. we're setting up more places for people to get vaccinationed. as of today, we provided 3.8 billion to states, territories and tribes to create hundreds of new vaccination centers and ramp the existing ones already. we're working with governors to bolster their efforts in stadiums, community centers and houses of worships and large parking lots. we're covering the costs for the states including use of their national guard, which are incredible. tomorrow jill and i will travel to eastern texas to look at one of the first mass vaccination centers and to thank everyone involved. this is an example of the kind of partnership between federal, state and local governments and government and private partners that will get this job done. we also sent millions of vaccines to thousands of local pharmacies across america to make it easier for folks to get the vaccine shot like they would the flu shot, going to a familiar place, familiar folks

agency, fema. and we commissioned our commission corps from the department of health and human services and the defenseepartment including the national guard supplying vaccinators. we're lining up thousands more to do the vaccinations. we're also setting up more places for people to get vaccinated. as of today, we provided $3.8 billion to states, territories, and tribes to create hundreds of new vaccination centers and ramp up the existing ones that are there already. we're working with governors across the country to bolster their efforts to stand up hundreds of vaccination centers from stadiums to community centers, houses of worship, large parking lots. we're providing personnel and equipment and covering the cost for the states including for the use of their national guard, which they're incredible. today, jill and i, or i should say, tomorrow jill and i will travel to houston, texas, to tour one of the first federal mass vaccination centers and to thank everyone involved. this is an example of the kind of partnership between federal, state and local governments, and public and private partners tha