As secretary, Mr. Price will be responsible for a department with an annual budget of more than $1 trillion. Some of the Democrats’ animus against Mr. Price stems from experience. Mr. Price has endorsed the idea of giving each state a fixed amount of federal money in the form of a block grant to provide health care to low-income people on Medicaid. After confirming Mr. Price, the Senate turned to the nomination of Steven T. Mnuchin, Mr. Trump’s pick to be Treasury secretary. But Mr. Mnuchin, like Mr. Price, has been criticized by Democrats, who boycotted a Finance Committee vote on his nomination.

Source: New York Times February 10, 2017 07:15 UTC