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A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is seen in Park Ridge, Ill., Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File)

Judge rules that ICE can obtain some Medicaid data

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Health, Admiral Rachel Levine speaks at the Health and Human Services Humphrey Building on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

How does dysfunctional HHS serve the ‘health and well-being’ of all Americans?

By Melissa Ortiz

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, center, greets members of the New York National Guard who participated in the St. Patrick's Day Parade outside St. Patrick's Cathedral, Wednesday, March 17, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) ** FILE **

Cardinals Cupich, Dolan blast HHS plan to require transgender procedures over religious objections

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

FILE - Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing, Sept. 30, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. U.S. health secretary Xavier Becerra is ordering Medicare to reassess a big premium increase facing millions of seniors this year. The increase was largely attributed to a pricey new Alzheimer’s drug with questionable benefits. Becerra’s directive on Monday comes days after drugmaker Biogen slashed the price of its $56,000-a-year medication, Aduhelm, to $28,200 a year — a cut of about half. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP, File)

Watchdog: HHS failing on health crises, deemed ‘high risk’

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated Press

In this Dec. 1, 2020, photo, President-elect Joe Biden speaks as Vice President-elect Kamala Harris listens at left, during an event to introduce their nominees and appointees to economic policy posts at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. Up soon for Biden: naming his top health care officials as the coronavirus pandemic rages. It’s hard to imagine more consequential picks. Biden is expected to announce his choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services next week. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Next for Biden: Getting the right health team as virus rages

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, left, waits for a press briefing about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House to begin Friday, May 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

HHS IG office is probing CDC, FDA efforts to test for COVID-19

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, file photo, passengers board buses after arriving on an airplane carrying U.S. citizens being evacuated from Wuhan, China, at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, Calif. The base is near capacity after housing 195 people flown in from Wuhan who are now under a federal quarantine. None of the evacuees at the base has shown signs of the illness. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

Probe: Breakdown in protecting feds during virus evacuation

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

This Feb. 1, 2020 photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows the Westwind Inn lodging facility at Travis Air Force Base, Calif. A government whistleblower has filed a complaint alleging that federal workers did not have the necessary protective gear or training when they were deployed to help victims of the coronavirus evacuated from China. The complaint deals with Health and Human Services Department employees sent to Travis Air Force Base in California to assist evacuees from China. (Nicholas Pilch/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Whistleblower: Feds helping evacuees lacked virus protection

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 26, 2018, file photo, families with young children protest the separation of immigrant families with a sit-in at the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington. The government has made only incremental improvements to its troubled efforts to care for thousands of migrant children detained entering the U.S. without their parents, perpetuating a problem the Trump administration has aggravated with its “zero tolerance” immigration crackdown, a bipartisan Senate report said Wednesday, Aug. 15. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Senate study faults government care of migrant children

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (left) failed to divest himself of certain holdings, said the ethics office. Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price squandered about $341,000 in government funds, according to the HHS inspector general's report. Mr. Price left his position last September.
testifies before a House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Space Subcommittee and House Armed Services Committee Strategic Forces Subcommittee joint hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ross says he is selling off all his vast stock holdings after news reports raised questions about the timing of some of his stock transactions and he received a sharp reprimand from the chief federal ethics officer. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Associated Press photographs)

Tom Price, Wilbur Ross under fire for ethical lapses, travel costs, business holdings

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this June 15, 2017, file photo, then-Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The government wasted at least $341,000 on travel by ousted Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, including booking charter flights without considering cheaper scheduled airlines, an agency watchdog said Friday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Tom Price’s chartered trips wasted more than $340K: IG report

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar appears speaks at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Alex Azar, HHS secretary, readmitted to the hospital for intestinal issue

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

ACLU: Teen at center of immigration case has abortion

By JESSICA GRESKO and NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price attends an opioid roundtable discussion in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. First lady Melania Trump invited experts and people affected by addiction to opioids to the White House for a listening session and discussion about the epidemic. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

The Latest: HHS chief says he’ll pay back charter costs

Associated Press

FILE - This June 18, 2014, file photo, detainees sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection, processing facility in Brownsville,Texas. Immigration courts backlogged by years of staffing shortages and tougher enforcement face an even more daunting challenge since tens of thousands of Central Americans began arriving on the U.S. border fleeing violence back home. For years, children from Central America traveling alone and immigrants who prove they have a credible fear of returning home have been entitled to a hearing before an immigration judge. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, Pool, File)

Overwhelmed feds putting illegal immigrant children at risk

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times