Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) will press West Virginia State Senator Mike Stuart (R) on Thursday about how his confidence in topics such as vaccines and abortion will affect his confidence in how he works as a general lawyer of the Health and Human Services Department.
Stuart supports State bill It allowed exemption in West Virginia’s school vaccination policy. He has also referred to himself as “unexpectedly supporting life” and proud to be supported by West Virginians for life in a post. X,
President Donald Trump tapped Stuart to serve as the top advocate for the agency in February, and the Senate Finance Committee has been scheduled to consider his nomination at 10 am on Thursday.
If confirmed, Robert F., Secretary, Stuart Health and Human Services (HHS). Kennedy Junior and Deputy Secretary will be responsible for giving legal advice to Jim O’Neel, who have already made several changes in the agency, such as sweeping pruning and Firing,
Warren wrote, “Your interpretation of law plays an important role in ensuring that HHS ‘is achieving its goal of protecting all Americans,” Warren has written One letter Stuart first shared with the hill.
“But given your ideological views, the enthusiasm for restrictions on abortion, and the records of anti-vaccine suspicion, I worry that, instead of following the law, you will greenlite the policies of Trump administration, who will endanger public health, strip Americans of abortion rights, and lose their health insurance to millions of Americans.
In the letter, Warren asked Stuart to come to the hearing with written reply to vaccine, abortion, staffing cuts, medicade and the implementation of “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”.
Warren’s letter states, “HHS bears a big responsibility as its services and touches millions of American lives every day.” “The Chief Legal Advisor to the Secretary of HHS must be enabled without prejudice, effectively advising the Secretary to ensure that all the action by HHS is according to the law.”
