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Politico reports:
Donald Trump’s transition team has rejected a push to install a prominent Project 2025 author in a senior role at the Department of Health and Human Services over concerns that his strident anti-abortion views would prove too controversial.
Anti-abortion groups had been lobbying Trump’s HHS secretary nominee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to select Roger Severino, a longtime anti-abortion stalwart, as the department’s deputy secretary.
The installation of Severino, director of HHS’ Office for Civil Rights during the first Trump administration, was aimed at allaying some of the groups’ concerns about Kennedy’s abortion record.
Read the full article. As was reported here on multiple occasions, Severino worked to rescind LGBTQ civil rights protections during Trump’s first term.
He last appeared here in January 2023 when it was reported that he had spearheaded the Heritage Foundation’s $5 million voter suppression campaign.
In November 2022, Severino declared that the passage of the Marriage Protection Act would “unleash the power of the state against people of faith who hold to the truth about marriage.”
In January 2018, his HHS division launched a snitch line for health care providers who felt they’d been forced to betray Jesus by providing care to somebody they hate, namely LGBTQ patients.
Severino’s wife, Carrie Severino, is president of the far-right Concord Fund, which was once known as the Judicial Crisis Network when Democrats were in power and as the Judicial Confirmation Network when the GOP was. That group is closely affiliated with SCOTUS puppeteer Leo Leonard.
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