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Josh Green

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Josh Green is an American politician and physician currently serving as the 9th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii, a position he has held since December 2018. A member of the Democratic Party, Green previously served as a State Senator from 2010 to 2018. Throughout his political career, he has focused on healthcare and social issues, leveraging his medical background to inform his policy decisions. Green has been an advocate for various initiatives aimed at improving public health and addressing the challenges faced by the people of Hawaii.

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Jul 26, 2025

It’s turning into a knife fight.

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Jul 26, 2025

The Democratic Party can’t stand by and watch it happen.

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Jul 26, 2025

It’s an obvious attempt to steal elections.

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Mar 4, 2025

Public health is about the health of all of the population. You make the best recommendations for the population.

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Mar 4, 2025

For children who are severely malnourished without adequate vitamin A, this is in countries that are deeply impoverished and you see massive malnutrition, yes. You want to make sure that vitamin A is -- is in a proper range because that…

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Mar 4, 2025

I hear them hedging. They're hedging because casting doubt, supporting misinformation campaigns does exactly what RFK Jr. and his cohort have been trying to do, which is I kind of just have enough doubt so that people pause, so that they…

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Feb 26, 2025

As we witness the very quickly changing landscape of the federal government, federal workforce and federal policies, this order directs state agencies to review candidates and make a conditional job offer within 14 days of receiving an…

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Feb 9, 2025

Today's decision will help our people heal much sooner, as we continue to rebuild and recover.

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Jan 28, 2025

The threat of a pardon will bring the Southern District to the table on this.

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Jan 28, 2025

He torpedoes it and makes it even worse. And it takes years to recover.

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Jan 28, 2025

He's a liar, and it's bullshit because he went there and he met with the anti-vax leader, supported that person who was spreading all of this misinformation.

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Jan 28, 2025

If this thing went anonymously as a vote, it would be 70 votes against.

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Jan 28, 2025

He totally flopped in his hearing today. Didn't know the difference, as you reported, between Medicare and Medicaid, which is totally fundamental to Health and Human Services.

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Jan 5, 2025

This decision, putting RFK in control of our health system is a very dangerous one.

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Jan 5, 2025

What happens when he has the full control of a trillion dollar agency? And we stopped doing research -- science-based research on diseases, disease states, medications, the medications that we need to help save people.

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Jan 5, 2025

Imagine if he defunded the NIH, the National Institute of Health, like he's talking about for up to eight years, so that we don't have any health research.

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Jan 5, 2025

I would ask the Republicans in the Senate, the Democrats in the Senate to not confirm him if that happens and he spreads doubt about vaccinations, communities all across the country will see their vaccination rates dip to a dangerous spot.

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Jan 5, 2025

If you put directors in, the secretary of health and human services is a critical position, and it results in our people getting harmed, then you haven't done the right thing by the people.

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Jan 5, 2025

The president has been reelected and he has to lead a country in a way that will take care of our people and protect people who are vulnerable.

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Jan 5, 2025

If he becomes health and human services secretary, people could die.

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Mar 6, 2024

Just like the rest of the country, there was increasing obesity, there was increasing diabetes because of it.

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Mar 6, 2024

Just like the rest of the country, there was increasing obesity, there was increasing diabetes because of it.

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Mar 5, 2024

Just like the rest of the country, there was increasing obesity, there was increasing diabetes because of it.

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Aug 16, 2023

The sirens were essentially immobilized, we believe, we believe, by the extreme heat that came through. Some were broken and we're investigating that.

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