{"id":164825,"date":"2021-02-23T15:30:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T20:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=164825"},"modified":"2021-02-23T15:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T20:43:42","slug":"bidens-pick-for-health-and-human-services-has-no-experience-in-health-or-human-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-pick-for-health-and-human-services-has-no-experience-in-health-or-human-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Pick For Health And Human Services Has No Experience In Health Or Human Services"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fbidens-pick-for-health-and-human-services-has-no-experience-in-health-or-human-services%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=164825&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\/GettyImages-530551244.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Several of President Joe Biden\u2019s Cabinet picks have left observers scratching their heads, but perhaps the most perplexing and least qualified of the department head nominees is California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The first obvious question is, \u201cwhat are Becerra\u2019s healthcare or medical qualifications?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The answer is, he has none. Unless one counts defending the Affordable Care Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Otherwise, Becerra\u2019s only other experience managing a healthcare situation is allowing California to remain in near-total lockdown mode, destroying businesses and livelihoods, forcing millions of his state constituents into anxiety \u2014 and depression-inducing isolation, and allowing school children to be used as political pawns in a lost year of education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Becerra\u2019s dismal handling of California\u2019s COVID-19 response does not bode well for the rest of the country if he is confirmed as the head of HHS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>California parents, students and \u2014 for the time being, at least \u2014 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) desperately want the state\u2019s schools re-opened and believe they can be operated safely during the lingering COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At this point, in fact, just about the only people who want the schools to remain closed are California\u2019s teachers\u2019 unions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Unfortunately, there are more than 50,000 reasons to think they\u2019ll get their way when the smoke clears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To be precise, teachers\u2019 unions spent at least\u00a0$51,600 between 2017 to 2019 to advance Attorney General Becerra\u2019s political fortunes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now, a leading official in one of the worst state COVID-19 responses and a politician who owes a lot to teachers\u2019 unions may head HHS, which oversees the CDC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Friday, the agency issued a report stating that schools could, and should, be open to in-person learning immediately under reasonable guidelines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Care to predict whether the CDC will align itself with scientific fact or Becerra\u2019s benefactors if he\u2019s in a position to allow unions to hold every student in the country hostage to their demands?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton tweeted campaign finance data revealing Becerra accepted $14,600 in political contributions from the California Teachers Association\/Association for Better Citizenship in 2017 and the California Federation of Teachers\u2019 COPE gave $14,600 in 2018 and another $7,800 in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With more than 300,000 members, the California Teachers Association is the country\u2019s largest teachers\u2019 union and enjoys considerable power in state policymaking. It has successfully prevented children from returning to in-person education and relentlessly advocated for teachers to get vaccinated before returning to the classroom, among its other demands, including \u2014 of course \u2014 more taxpayer funding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Teachers\u2019 unions in Los Angeles, however, tried attaching even more strings to their agreement, including closing charter schools and defunding local police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If confirmed, Cotton believes Beccera would \u201cweaponize the CDC to keep our schools closed and our children falling further behind.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>California has long been the cronyism and union corruption capital of the nation. Now, Becerra is a Senate vote away from applying this model to the rest of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When Biden promised to make his the most union-friendly administration in history, he didn\u2019t come right out and say that meant turning over the levers of power to a greedy, unscrupulous special interest.<\/span><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But the unions knew what he meant. And it turns out they were right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Aaron Withe is national director of the Freedom Foundation, a multi-state public policy organization specializing in the abuses of government employee unions.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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