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WATCH: President Joe Biden delivers remarks to mark World AIDS Day

By Aamer Madhani, Associated Press

President Joe Biden has unveiled his new HIV/AIDS strategy to end the more than 40-year-old epidemic, calling for a renewed focus on vulnerable Americans.

WATCH: Education officials testify about supporting schools during COVID, School board group asks US for help policing threats

By News Desk and Carolyn Thompson, Associated Press

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra are expected to testify before a Senate committee on Thursday about schools during the pandemic.

Biden to build on ‘Obamacare’ after Supreme Court tosses GOP lawsuit, Sec. Becerra says

By PBS NewsHour

The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, survived a third major legal challenge at the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday. In a 7-2 vote, the justices rejected a lawsuit brought by 18 Republican-led states that questioned the ACA’s legality over…

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WATCH: Senate Appropriations Committee holds hearing with Xavier Becerra about HHS budget

By News Desk

Becerra detailed a $25 billion proposed increase in funding for the department to bring its total to about $131.7 billion in discretionary budget.

WATCH: HHS Secretary Becerra and HUD Secretary Fudge announce vaccine rollout for homeless

By Associated Press

The federal departments of health and housing have launched a joint project to provide coronavirus vaccines to the homeless and people living in low-income neighborhoods and subsidized housing.

HHS Sec. Becerra on bipartisanship, health care and immigration

By Amna Nawaz

The Biden administration on Wednesday laid out a $1.8 trillion American Families Plan, which focuses on child care and education. As President Biden pushes these sweeping new policies, he's relying on his cabinet secretaries to help in the negotiation effort.

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WATCH: Harris swears in Becerra as health secretary

By Associated Press

The position Xavier Becerra fills is key position in the administration's coronavirus response and its ambitious push to lower drug costs, expand insurance coverage, and eliminate racial disparities in medical care.

WATCH: Biden to expand ‘Obamacare’ by cutting health insurance costs

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Alexandra Jaffe, Associated Press

President Joe Biden pledged Tuesday that his $1.9 trillion rescue package would build on the promise of the Affordable Care Act, the hallmark legislation of Barack Obama's presidency that became law 11 years ago.

WATCH: Democrats push forward with Biden’s health secretary pick

By Kevin Freking, Associated Press

The Senate voted on Thursday to advance President Joe Biden’s nominee for health secretary as Democrats muscled past Republican opposition using a new procedure put in place to avoid gridlock in the evenly divided Senate.