As our nation continues battling the worst pandemic of our generation, Americans expected the new administration to nominate a qualified candidate to lead the Department of Health and Human Services: a leader equipped both to expedite vaccine distribution and help defeat COVID-19 while earning broad bipartisan support at the same time. This was a reasonable expectation, given then-candidate Joe Biden’s campaign promise to be a centrist, unifying leader.

Instead, President Biden violated that pledge by choosing a career politician who not only has zero direct healthcare management expertise but also holds indefensible and radical views on abortion and religious liberty.