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30 September
7:58 pm

We never forced anyone to get a vaccine. We don't have the power to do that at HHS.

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Xavier Becerra, at California Governor General Election Debate (CNN)

7:58 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific assertion about HHS's legal authority regarding vaccine mandates that can be verified against federal law and HHS policy actions during Becerra's tenure
What we foundBoth parts of Becerra's claim are contradicted by authoritative sources: HHS did mandate vaccines for its own clinical workforce and for over 10 million Medicare/Medicaid healthcare workers, and the Supreme Court affirmed HHS had the legal authority to do so.
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