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orangecrush

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Sat Dec 13, 2025, 08:13 AM Dec 13

Former Admiral Rachel Levine's name changed on federal government portrait [View all]

(WHTM)– Pennsylvania’s former top health official is making national news she didn’t ask for this week.

Former Admiral Rachel Levine is well known in Pennsylvania for her work during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then she went to Washington, where the current controversy is centered.

Dr. Levine led Pennsylvania’s Department of Health during former Governor Tom Wolf’s administration before becoming the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Biden Administration.

In addition to her accomplishments in the field, she is often referred to as the first openly transgender person to hold the leadership roles she has held.

TA portrait of Admiral Rachel Levine still hangs in the hallway of the Department of Health and Human Services headquarters, but HHS leaders have changed the name under the portrait to her birth name.

https://www.abc27.com/pennsylvania/former-admiral-levines-name-changed-on-hhs-portrait/

Anyone who might, in any way shape or form, seek to hinder or obstruct the prosecution of these people when this is over needs to go.

Now.






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