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Health and Human Services

As Biden Reopens Texas Detention Center, Amnesty Demands Immigration Policies That Put 'Best Interests' of Children First

Textbooks and notebooks line tables inside a classroom at a detention facility for unaccompanied migrant children on Sunday, February 21, 2021 in Carrizo Springs, Texas. (Photo: Sergio Flores/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Promised Vaccine Stockpile Doesn't Even Exist? Governors Demand Trump 'Answer Immediately for This Deception'

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

Seniors and first responders wait in line to receive a Covid-19 vaccine at the Lakes Regional Library on December 30, 2020 in Fort Myers, Florida. (Photo: Octavio Jones/Getty Images)

States "thought they were getting more doses and they planned for more doses and opened up to 65 and up, thinking they were getting more."

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Trump Administration Rejects Scientists' Advice on Nutrition, Maintaining Guidelines for Sugar and Alcohol

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Again going against scientific advice, again failing the people they serve."

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Trump Executive Order on Private School Vouchers Denounced as 'Last-Ditch Effort to Claim Victory' in War on Public Education

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

Students line up in a hallway during the first day back to school on December 7, 2020 at Yung Wing Elementary P.S. 124 in New York City. (Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

"Trump fought against funding for public education for months, then does this...

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U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar (R) speaks at a January 28, 2020 news conference on the emerging Covid-19 crisis as CDC Director Robert Redfield stands by. (Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

House Democrats Subpoena HHS and CDC Chiefs Over Alleged Political Interference in Covid-19 Response

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are prepared to be administered to frontline healthcare workers in Reno, Nevada on December 17, 2020. (Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

'Baffling': Trump Admin Reportedly Slashing Vaccine Allocations to States While Millions of Doses Sit on Shelves

CDC Director Robert Redfield (L) with President Donald Trump during a daily coronavirus briefing on April 22, 2020 at the White House in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

CDC Official Says She Was Told to Delete Email on Kids' Covid-19 Risk to Match Trump's School Reopening Message

Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo speaks at a news conference giving a coronavirus update at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Providence on May 12, 2020. (Photo: John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Facing Opposition From Progressives, Gina Raimondo Withdraws From Consideration as Biden's HHS Chief

President-elect Joe Biden delivers a remarks on the economic recovery in Wilmington, Delaware on Monday, November 16, 2020. (Photo: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

With Pandemic as National Emergency, Biden Could Enact Medicare for All by Executive Action—But Will He?

Michael Carvajal, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, testifies under oath before the House Judiciary Committee on June 2, 2020. (Photo: Tom Williams/Getty Images)

ACLU Sues Trump Admin. to Obtain Key Records on 'Dishonest and Incompetent' Federal Handling of Coronavirus Pandemic in Prisons

A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and were detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents before being sent to a processing center for possible separation. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

'Just Babies at the Time': ACLU Says It Can't Find Parents of Over 500 Children Separated From Families by Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as Vice President Mike Pence, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, and Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, look on during a press conference on the coronavirus outbreak on February 29, 2020. (Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)

1,000+ CDC Officials Condemn Trump's Disastrous Pandemic Response, 'Silencing' of Agency

Nurses hold signs at a Vigil for Nurses Who've Died From Covid-19 at the U.S. Capital on July 21, 2020 in Washington, D.C. They gathered at the Capitol demanding that the U.S. Senate pass the HEROES Act, which would provide much needed personal protective equipment and regulatory protections for frontline workers. (Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Labor Unions and Green Groups Sue Trump Admin. for 'Failure to Protect Frontline Workers From Covid-19'

A medical professional administers a coronavirus test at a drive-thru testing site run by George Washington University Hospital, May 26, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Top Dem Says Internal Govt. Watchdog Report Shows Trump Still Has No 'Coherent' Response to Covid-19

After Spending Months Denying Need for Testing, Trump Moves to Gut FDA's Oversight Process for Coronavirus Tests

Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks at the daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on April 19, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

Denouncing Seema Verma's "Textbook Definition of Corruption," Jayapal Calls for Medicare Chief's Ouster

Newswire

People's Action

Over 90 Grassroots Health Care and Labor Groups Urge Senate to Immediately Confirm Xavier Becerra to HHS

Public Citizen

HHS Must Release Billion Dollar Coronavirus Vaccine Contracts, Public Citizen Lawsuit Says

Earthjustice

HHS is Withholding Health and Safety Data on Active Migrant Detention Center

Public Citizen

Report: States With More Coronavirus Hospitalizations Received Less Remdesivir

Drug Policy Alliance

Drug Policy Alliance Proposes Federal All-Drug Decriminalization, Releases New Legislative Framework

NARAL Pro-Choice America

NARAL President Responds to HHS Secretary Proclaiming Department Is "Department of Life"

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Natalie Shure

Biden's HHS Pick Will Be In a Position to Finally Take On the Healthcare Industry

Anita Desikan

Political Officials Undermine CDC Scientists’ COVID-19 Studies

Adam Schwartz

No to Expanded HHS Surveillance of COVID-19 Patients

Michelle D. Holmes

Black Lives Depend on the U.S. Dietary Guidelines