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   Unqualified diversity hire Xavier Becerra is really bad at his   
   job   
      
   President Joe Biden still hasn't fired Xavier Becerra, the   
   unqualified health and human services secretary whose failed   
   leadership has exacerbated the administration's botched response   
   to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the ongoing monkeypox   
   outbreak.   
      
   Alas, Becerra probably won't be fired for the same reason he was   
   hired. Because of his race and the so-called diversity he brings   
   to the administration.   
      
   READ MORE: White House Afraid To Replace HHS Secretary Because   
   He’s Hispanic   
      
   The White House has been fed up with Becerra's job performance   
   for months and has "openly mused" about replacing him, according   
   to a Washington Post report published in January. Health experts   
   inside and outside the administration complained about his "low   
   profile" and "passive" approach to complex problems. "He hasn't   
   shown up," one COVID-19 analyst told the Post. "[He's been] like   
   a ghost."   
      
   Nevertheless, administration officials were "loath" to give   
   Becerra the axe because doing so "would likely draw the ire of   
   the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and other grass-roots groups   
   that pressed Biden to appoint more Latinos to his Cabinet."   
      
   New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns   
   recounted this racially charged pressure campaign in their   
   recently published book, This Will Not Pass. Biden's search for   
   a health secretary, they wrote, was a "fraught" process   
   characterized by "hurt feelings and [racial] grievance."   
      
   While attempting to assemble "the most diverse cabinet in   
   history," Biden's team "panicked" in response to criticism from   
   Hispanic lawmakers who wanted more Hispanics nominated for   
   cabinet-level positions. They "scrambled" to offer Becerra the   
   job—a "hasty choice" explicitly intended to "calm the situation."   
      
   So much for Biden's campaign pledge to "follow the science" and   
   "shut down" COVID-19 by putting the experts back in charge of   
   the government's pandemic response. Becerra, a former   
   congressman, was woefully unqualified for the position of health   
   secretary. His most relevant experience involved a lawsuit he   
   filed as California attorney general to force the Little Sisters   
   of the Poor to provide birth control to employees. More than   
   620,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 on his watch.   
      
   Some Democrats complained about the "harried selection process"   
   and viewed Becerra as a "baffling" nominee. They were ignored.   
   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) was especially annoyed   
   because she "had worked closely with Becerra in the House and   
   viewed him as untrustworthy." Meanwhile, Biden chief of staff   
   Ron Klain grew "weary" of the Democratic coalition's insistence   
   on "treating the cabinet as an identity-politics Rubik's Cube."   
      
   Becerra's inability to helm the nation's health department was   
   glaringly obvious in January, when the Post reported on White   
   House "frustrations" with his leadership. In recent months, the   
   federal government's response to monkeypox has further   
   vindicated Becerra's critics who contend the health secretary   
   has absolutely no idea what he's doing.   
      
   The New York Times on Wednesday published a damning report on   
   Becerra's botched handling of the monkeypox outbreak, which has   
   been hobbled by a vaccine shortage "caused in part" by his   
   department's failure "to ask that bulk stocks of the vaccine it   
   already owned be bottled for distribution." The release of the   
   vaccine doses was also delayed because the Food and Drug   
   Administration, under Becerra's purview, took months to inspect   
   and approve the Danish factory producing the vaccine.   
      
   Lawrence Gostin, a renowned public health expert from Georgetown   
   Law who has consulted with the White House on monkeypox, said   
   the government's response to the outbreak has been "deeply   
      
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