Sebelius to resign as HHS chief

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will resign from President Obama’s Cabinet. Obama intends to replace Sebelius, who has been under fire for the botched rollout of the federal ObamaCare exchange, with Sylvia Burwell, who is now the director of the Office of Management and Budget. Sebelius’s long-expected departure comes just two weeks after the end of ObamaCare’s first enrollment period. It’s been a rough six months for Sebelius. She and her staff were called to testify in front of dozens of congressional panels, the media flocked to every event she participated in, and the agencies she oversaw were under enormous pressure to provide updates and data on the rollout. Lawmakers from both parties had called for her to resign. The Obama administration insisted it would hold officials responsible for their work, but quietly signaled that drastic measures couldn’t take place while the federal website struggled to get off the ground. Sebelius had served as secretary since 2009. She was governor of Kansas prior to that.