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Alex Azar, the Health and Human Services Secretary, resigned earlier this week, citing the violent Capitol riot inflamed by President Donald Trump in his resignation letter obtained by NBC News.
Azar said his resignation would become effective on Jan. 20th the same date he would have been leaving office once President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in. The letter was dated Jan. 12, almost a week after the riot.
He said that the attack which left five people dead and many injured and the president's slow response to condemn it, threaten to "tarnish" the achievements the administration has made over the past four years. In particular, Operation Warp Speed, which led to the creation of two vaccines to combat the raging coronavirus pandemic.
"The attacks on the Capitol were an assault on our Democracy and the tradition of peaceful transitions of power that the United States of America first brought to the world," he said. "I Implore you to continue to condemn unequivocally any form of violence, to demand that no one attempt to disrupt the inaugural activities in Washington or elsewhere and to continue to support unreservedly the peaceful and orderly transition of power on January 20, 2021."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/alex-azar-resigns-as-health-and-human-services-secretary-citing-capitol-mob/ar-BB1cNEMs?li=BBnb7Kz
obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)Wicked Blue
(5,834 posts)Maybe a House committee can subpoena him quickly?
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)That was an administration lie.
We need to get off of this complaint about a disappearing reserve that never existed.
Want to be angry? Be angry that they lied about the existence of a reserve. The lie actually exists.
Other than a few thousand mishandled doses, there are none missing.