The panel alleged that 14 top-ranking NIH officials were not lawfully reappointed at the end of 2021, potentially jeopardizing billions in grants they approved.
A top-ranking House Republican on Tuesday accused the Department of Health and Human Services of"changing their story," after the Biden administration defended the legality of its reappointments for key National Institutes of Health officials that Republicans have questioned.
It also raised concerns about affidavits Becerra signed earlier this year to retroactively ratify the appointments, in an effort the department said was only meant to bolster defenses against bad-faith legal attacks. "As their own report shows, the prior administration appointed at least five NIH IC officials under the process they now attack," the spokesperson had said.
And she said that she thinks that the administration is responding to a provision that only governs pay scale, not propriety of the appointments themselves.
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