Representative Jim Banks (R-In.) exchanged barbs with Biden Health Secretary Xavier Becerra on Tuesday during a House Committee on Education & the Workforce hearing.

The two got in to a heated exchange over the Health Secretary’s support for so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ for transgender youth, a topic that has been at the forefront of public debate in state legislatures in recent months.

Becerra has been a frequent proponent of gun control, being one of many liberal bureaucrats in the HHS and Surgeon General’s office to classify it as a public health issue.

Banks questioned why Becerra would support a prohibition on 18 to 20-year-olds owning a hunting rifle, a policy he has previously expressed support for, while believing that minors should be able to get gender reassignment surgeries and hormone therapy.

The debate was sparked when Banks questioned a policy supported by the Biden administration that would withhold money used to subsidize school lunches if they did not comply with Biden’s interpretation of Title IX, which affords a wide array of protections against discrimination to transgender people.

Becerra did not give Banks straight answers to many of his questions, leading to a tense exchange between the two.

Banks accused Becerra of attempting to ‘wiggle out’ of answering his questions and called the policies the Biden administration supports evil.

“It’s indefensible, which is why Secretary Becerra tried so hard to wriggle out of answering for his evil policies.”

FOX News Reports–

GOP Congressman Jim Banks mixed it up with HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra over transgender ideology in a hearing Tuesday and told Fox News Digital that the interaction was an attempt by the Biden administration to “wiggle out” of defending “evil” policies it’s pushing.

“The Biden administration wants to force states like Indiana to greenlight harmful and irreversible transition procedures on minors, and if you resist by protecting your family from their radical gender ideology, they want to kidnap your child,” Rep. Banks told Fox News Digital in a statement Tuesday following an exchange with Becerra during a House Committee on Education & the Workforce hearing.

“It’s indefensible, which is why Secretary Becerra tried so hard to wriggle out of answering for his evil policies.”

 

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