Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra marked his first year in office Friday by highlighting progress in the COVID-19 fight and demanding money from Congress to keep up the fight, signaling an effort to raise his profile in Year Two after a quiet start in which he ceded the pandemic spotlight to a White House task force and focused on comfort-zone topics like Obamacare instead.
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