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I believe Biden is incompetent and insane. Facts speak for themselves.
Unqualified diversity hire Xavier Becerra is really bad at his
job
President Joe Biden still hasn't fired Xavier Becerra, the
unqualified health and human services secretary whose failed
leadership has exacerbated the administration's botched response
to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the ongoing monkeypox
outbreak.
Alas, Becerra probably won't be fired for the same reason he was
hired. Because of his race and the so-called diversity he brings
to the administration.
READ MORE: White House Afraid To Replace HHS Secretary Because
He’s Hispanic
The White House has been fed up with Becerra's job performance
for months and has "openly mused" about replacing him, according
to a Washington Post report published in January. Health experts
inside and outside the administration complained about his "low
profile" and "passive" approach to complex problems. "He hasn't
shown up," one COVID-19 analyst told the Post. "[He's been] like
a ghost."
Nevertheless, administration officials were "loath" to give
Becerra the axe because doing so "would likely draw the ire of
the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and other grass-roots groups
that pressed Biden to appoint more Latinos to his Cabinet."
New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns
recounted this racially charged pressure campaign in their
recently published book, This Will Not Pass. Biden's search for
a health secretary, they wrote, was a "fraught" process
characterized by "hurt feelings and [racial] grievance."
While attempting to assemble "the most diverse cabinet in
history," Biden's team "panicked" in response to criticism from
Hispanic lawmakers who wanted more Hispanics nominated for
cabinet-level positions. They "scrambled" to offer Becerra the
job—a "hasty choice" explicitly intended to "calm the situation."
So much for Biden's campaign pledge to "follow the science" and
"shut down" COVID-19 by putting the experts back in charge of
the government's pandemic response. Becerra, a former
congressman, was woefully unqualified for the position of health
secretary. His most relevant experience involved a lawsuit he
filed as California attorney general to force the Little Sisters
of the Poor to provide birth control to employees. More than
620,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 on his watch.
Some Democrats complained about the "harried selection process"
and viewed Becerra as a "baffling" nominee. They were ignored.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) was especially annoyed
because she "had worked closely with Becerra in the House and
viewed him as untrustworthy." Meanwhile, Biden chief of staff
Ron Klain grew "weary" of the Democratic coalition's insistence
on "treating the cabinet as an identity-politics Rubik's Cube."
Becerra's inability to helm the nation's health department was
glaringly obvious in January, when the Post reported on White
House "frustrations" with his leadership. In recent months, the
federal government's response to monkeypox has further
vindicated Becerra's critics who contend the health secretary
has absolutely no idea what he's doing.
The New York Times on Wednesday published a damning report on
Becerra's botched handling of the monkeypox outbreak, which has
been hobbled by a vaccine shortage "caused in part" by his
department's failure "to ask that bulk stocks of the vaccine it
already owned be bottled for distribution." The release of the
vaccine doses was also delayed because the Food and Drug
Administration, under Becerra's purview, took months to inspect
and approve the Danish factory producing the vaccine.
Lawrence Gostin, a renowned public health expert from Georgetown
Law who has consulted with the White House on monkeypox, said
the government's response to the outbreak has been "deeply
frustrating." Federal health agencies have been "kind of asleep
at the wheel on this," and continue to struggle with "the same
kinds of bureaucratic delays and forgetfulness and dropping the
ball that we did during the COVID pandemic," he told the Times.
The article includes a familiar critique of Becerra's
leadership. Detractors fault his "hands-off approach to an
increasingly serious situation," but weren't willing to speak on
the record. Biden is reportedly "upset" by the vaccine shortage
and "stung by criticism that a lack of foresight and management
has left gay men—the prime risk group for monkeypox—unprotected."
Josh Barro, a pro-Biden journalist, observed that the Times
article "really makes Xavier Becerra sound incompetent and out
to lunch. How did he get the HHS Secretary job anyway? He
doesn't have relevant qualifications."
Indeed.
Published under: Democratic Party, Health and Human Services,
Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Xavier Becerra
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/joe-biden-xavier-
becerra/
Biden is mentally unfit to hold public office.
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