Victor Davis Hanson: ‘Hardcore left-wing’ Xavier Becerra would be ‘our version of Tedros’ at HHS
If Xavier Becerra is confirmed by the Senate as Health and Human Services secretary, America can have “our version of [WHO Director-General] Tedros [Ghebreyesus]”, Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson advised “The Ingraham Angle” Monday.
“He’s a very effective hardcore left-wing politician,” Hanson mentioned of Becerra, a former California congressman and the state’s present legal professional basic. “He’s spent the last 40 years either running for office or being an elected official or appointed official. He’s got zero experience in the private sector. He knows nothing about health care.”
“He’s our version of Tedros, the head of the World Health Organization — the first [director-general] to have no M.D.”
Hanson later identified that each of Donald Trump’s HHS secretaries had been extra certified to carry the submit than Becerra. Former Georgia Rep. Tom Price, he famous, was a medical physician, and Alex Azar had been an govt at pharmaceutical large Eli Lilly & Co.
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Host Laura Ingraham additionally identified, Becerra has been a staunch supporter of abortion rights and has claimed unlawful immigration is just not really unlawful as a result of the border crossers “haven’t commited a crime against someone.”
Hanson added that Biden’s alternative of Becerra additionally rings similar to Barack Obama’s alternative of Charles Bolden to grow to be NASA administrator.
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Bolden created a firestorm after telling an Al Jazeera interviewer that Obama needed him to, amongst different targets, “maybe foremost … find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and interact rather more with dominantly Muslim nations to assist them be ok with their historic contributions to science.”
“I’m worried Mr. Becerra, in the time of a pandemic, is going to say healthcare will be defined as immigration, or it will be defined as gun control,” Hanson mentioned, pointing to methods Becerra might codify liberal coverage targets in his function.
