March 18, 2021 — Xavier Becerra was confirmed as secretary of well being and human companies by the U.S. Senate on Thursday.
The vote was 50 to 49, and Senator Susan Collins of Maine was the one Republican to help his affirmation, The New York Occasions reported.
Becerra is a son of Mexican immigrants who grew to become a member of Congress and California’s legal professional common.
He’ll turn into the primary Latino to supervise the HHS, and takes cost because the Biden administration leads the nation out of the coronavirus pandemic, which has already prompted greater than half one million deaths and has hit folks of coloration notably exhausting, the Occasions reported.
