HHS Secy. defends Joe Biden’s door-to-door vaccine push Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra speaks with employees at a Head Start early childhood education program at Martha’s Table at The Commons on June 30, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) OAN Newsroom UPDATED 6:55 PM PT – Thursday, July 8, 2021 While Joe Biden and his cabinet remain fixated on raising the American vaccination rate, Republicans are pushing back against their methods of doing so. During an interview on Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said the Biden administration has requested the names of Americans who have refused to take the experimental vaccine.