{"id":164454,"date":"2021-02-23T13:28:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T18:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=164454"},"modified":"2021-02-23T13:44:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T18:44:15","slug":"mcconnell-unloads-on-bidens-radical-and-underqualified-hhs-nominee-xavier-becerra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-unloads-on-bidens-radical-and-underqualified-hhs-nominee-xavier-becerra\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell Unloads On Biden\u2019s \u2018Radical And Underqualified\u2019 HHS Nominee Xavier Becerra"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmcconnell-unloads-on-bidens-radical-and-underqualified-hhs-nominee-xavier-becerra%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=164454&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/XB-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed President Joe Biden\u2019s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, saying that Becerra\u2019s \u201cchief passion\u201d is \u201cusing the force of government to attack Americans\u2019 religious liberty and freedom of conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmid a global pandemic, the president has made a puzzling selection for this critical post: The famously partisan Attorney General of California,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cMr. Becerra has no particular experience or expertise in health. His chief passion project in California seemed to be using the force of government to attack Americans\u2019 religious liberty and freedom of conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2017, the department he\u2019s nominated to lead finally provided a religious exemption to a controversial Obamacare mandate,\u201d he said. \u201cMr. Becerra led the lawsuit to challenge it. He used his taxpayer-funded office to sue Catholic nuns who didn\u2019t want government forcing them to violate their beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell also hit Becerra for his \u201cposition in favor of government-compelled speech\u201d and noted that the federal government had to hold Becerra and the state of California \u201cin violation of conscience protections that are written into federal law.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Becerra\u2019s Pattern: Using Government to Attack Religious Liberty and Freedom of Conscience\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zDETpeb9rK8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Today, our colleagues on the HELP Committee will question Xavier Becerra, President Biden\u2019s nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Amid a global pandemic, the president has made a puzzling selection for this critical post: The famously partisan Attorney General of California.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. Becerra has no particular experience or expertise in health. His chief passion project in California seemed to be using the force of government to attack Americans\u2019 religious liberty and freedom of conscience.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In 2017, the department he\u2019s nominated to lead finally provided a religious exemption to a controversial Obamacare mandate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. Becerra led the lawsuit to challenge it. He used his taxpayer-funded office to sue Catholic nuns who didn\u2019t want government forcing them to violate their beliefs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a pattern with Mr. Becerra. When a California law forcing pro-life crisis pregnancy centers to advertise abortion was challenged in court, Mr. Becerra defended it to the bitter end.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>His absurd position in favor of government-compelled speech was slapped down by the Supreme Court. Over the last two years, the HHS Office of Civil Rights literally had to hold California and Mr. Becerra in violation of conscience protections that are written into federal law.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>His zealous refusal to respect his citizens\u2019 legal rights positioned his state to potentially forfeit hundreds of millions of dollars in HHS funding. That\u2019s how committed they were to these violations. And now the fox wants to guard the henhouse?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We will review Mr. Becerra\u2019s testimony today. But I am hard-pressed to see any way such a radical and underqualified nominee should fill such a critical post at this crucial time.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed President Joe Biden\u2019s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, saying that Becerra\u2019s \u201cchief passion\u201d is \u201cusing the force &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274036,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/XB-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"McConnell Unloads On Biden\u2019s \u2018Radical And Underqualified\u2019 HHS Nominee Xavier Becerra","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/XB-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"McConnell Unloads On Biden\u2019s \u2018Radical And Underqualified\u2019 HHS Nominee Xavier Becerra","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}