Palm had served as a key member of President
Barack Obama‘s administration, as senior counselor to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 2014 until 2017, overseeing the operational agenda for the public health and human services agencies with more than 60,000 employees. She was also a senior adviser to the White House Domestic Policy Council during implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Before this, she had worked five years as a health policy adviser to then-Sen.
But that wasn’t good enough for the Republican-dominated Wisconsin State Senate, which delayed the approval of her nomination for two years. “It just boggles my mind how some really quality people are just left hanging like this,” Evers complained in December 2020 of the endless delay by the Senate, which refused to approve the appointment of Palm and two other cabinet secretaries.
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