After Mandating Vaccines And Censoring Conservatives, Biden’s HHS Sec Wonders Why Nobody Trusts His Agency

Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s outgoing Health and Human Services secretary, is lamenting Americans’ abysmal distrust in federal health agencies while defending the administration’s censorship efforts and vaccine mandates on his way out the door.

Becerra blamed Americans’ distrust of federal health agencies on allegedly false public health content that circulates on social media, according to an interview the outgoing HHS secretary gave to The Washington Post that was published Sunday. The outgoing HHS secretary stood by the administration and his own agency’s pressuring of social media companies to remove vaccine content alleged to be disinformation and its since-retired coronavirus vaccine mandate for federal workers during the interview.

“Every chance I have to do what the science and the evidence is telling me is going to protect Americans and save lives … I’d do it again,” Becerra told the Post. “I don’t know what more we can do .”

Under Becerra’s leadership, HHS personnel directed social media companies to flag instances of alleged misinformation and provide counter talking points in response to allegedly false information on platforms.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized Biden officials for pressuring the social media behemoth to flag and delete content the administration alleged to be disinformation during an appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast Friday.

Support for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was largely stagnant during Biden’s term despite Becerra’s alleged efforts to regain Americans’ trust,