The Republicans who confirmed Betsy DeVos have problems with Xavier Becerra? Please
Sen. Richard M. Burr (R-N.C.) is a thoughtful guy, and while he's a reliable Republican vote on the vast majority of issues that come before the Senate, he's independent enough to have voted to convict former President Trump at Trump's second impeachment trial (but not the first one).
So it was disturbing to hear Burr make the Republicans' least principled argument Tuesday against California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra's nomination to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: that only someone with significant work experience in the healthcare sector should serve in that post.
"I am deeply concerned that your time in Congress and as California attorney general leaves you woefully unprepared to meaningfully engage in the set of healthcare challenges that require our full attention," Burr said in his opening statement at the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the nominee. "I do not believe that you have the necessary experience or skills to do this job at this moment in time."
Riiiiiggght. Because HHS is somehow different from the Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Energy and Education? Burr had no problem voting to confirm Trump's pick of a neurosurgeon to lead HUD, a governor who knew nothing about nuclear weapons to lead Energy and a philanthropist who'd never spent a day working in (or even attending) a public school to lead Education.
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