{"id":31794,"date":"2021-02-18T16:49:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T00:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31794"},"modified":"2021-02-18T16:49:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T00:49:32","slug":"a-gop-target-hhs-nominee-xavier-becerra-new-ad-campaigns-are-afoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31794","title":{"rendered":"A GOP target: HHS nominee Xavier Becerra. New ad campaigns are afoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative groups have launched advertising and grassroots campaigns in a bid to sink the nomination of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ebypjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwrrdqzhh_abbmhhdkdnmpmdplbskk.html?a=&amp;b=37017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ebypjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwrrdqzhh_abbmhhdkdnmpmdplbskk.html?a%3D%26b%3D37017&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1613777700702000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGNxa2PNK7lIeVGYiy6z1lC6MXKZQ\">Xavier Becerra<\/a>\u00a0for secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), portraying him as too liberal and inexperienced for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage Action for America is backing a $600,000 ad campaign targeting Becerra, while Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion conservative group, is seeking to drum up grassroots support to pressure lawmakers to oppose Becerra&#8217;s confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>The two groups are aiming to galvanize Senate Republican opposition to the former California attorney general, which would increase pressure on Democrats from red or purple states. Biden&#8217;s Cabinet nominees have thus far been confirmed with bipartisan approval.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big hearing next week:\u00a0<\/strong>Becerra is set to appear before the Senate Health Committee next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why would we be putting someone in charge of Health and Human Services (HHS) at such a critical time as the pandemic who doesn\u2019t have the health care experience,&#8221; said Jessica Anderson, executive director of Heritage Action, noting that previous agency leaders who were not doctors still had experience in the health care industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative groups have launched advertising and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31795,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31794\/revisions\/31795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}