Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar declined to say whether he would fire the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement for interfering when teen girls in government custody sought to have an abortion, though he said he “absolutely” had confidence in him.

Democrats have called for the firing of ORR director Scott Lloyd, who had tried to stop the girls from having an abortion, at least one of whom became pregnant as a result of rape. The cases, involving girls who arrived in the U.S. illegally, have triggered a string of lawsuits that have ultimately ended with the girls having an abortion.