Dr. Deborah Birx and Dr. Anthony Fauci “continue to contradict many of President Trump’s stated goals,” said Rep. Andy Biggs.
Rep. Andy Biggs, chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, on Thursday called on the White House to shutter its coronavirus task force, claiming the nation’s top public health experts were undermining President Donald Trump.
“As our economy is restored, it is imperative that President Trump is not undermined in his mission to return our economy to greatness,” the Arizona Republican said in a statement released after the Labor Department reported the U.S. economy had added 4.8 million jobs in June and the unemployment rate had fallen to 11.1 percent.
Biggs went on to assert that Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, “continue to contradict many of President Trump’s stated goals and actions for returning to normalcy as we know more about” the highly infectious outbreak.
“This is causing panic that compromises our economic recovery,” Biggs said. “We can protect our most vulnerable from the COVID-19 outbreak while still protecting lives and livelihoods of the rest of the population. It’s time for the COVID-19 task force to be disbanded so that President Trump’s message is not mitigated or distorted.”
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Rep. Andy Biggs today called on the White House to shutter its coronavirus task force, claiming the nation’s top public health experts were undermining President Trumphttps://t.co/oatf8k1wPS
— POLITICO (@politico) July 2, 2020
Amazing admission from a public health agency in the middle of a pandemic:
“We continued to ask for approval” from the White House to hold briefings, a CDC spokesperson told @alexnazaryan. “We were not given approval. Finally, we just stopped asking.” https://t.co/klc6Mrp0x2
— Sharon Weinberger (@weinbergersa) July 2, 2020
“Dr Fauci and Dr Birx have undermined what this president is trying to do” — @RepAndyBiggsAZ isn’t even trying to hide his desire to suppress politically inconvenient facts pic.twitter.com/iJlUtNkCYB
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 2, 2020
Might as well disband the task force. It could have been a great way to get out the facts and helpful information on the virus we all needed. Instead Trump turned it into a circus side show with its briefings becoming a way for him to campaign for re-election. He disregarded the advice of experts, lied to all of us and made a potentially deadly virus into a joke.
I say this again and again: Trump only cares about himself. The rest of us are only good for our votes.
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