Senate Democrats ask HHS watchdog investigate
Source: CNN
Senate Democrats are asking the Health and Human Services Department watchdog to investigate President Donald Trump's recent assertion that he asked his staff to "slow the testing down" for coronavirus.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut sent a letter to the department's acting inspector general Monday asking to review all coronavirus testing funding streams and programs "to determine whether any programs have been 'slowed down' at the request of President Trump."
While Congress has passed bipartisan legislation expanding coronavirus testing, they wrote, "it appears, however, that President Trump does not support federal efforts to expand access to COVID-19 tests and has undermined efforts to increase testing."
CNN has reached out to HHS acting Inspector General Christi Grimm for comment.
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kimbutgar
(21,148 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)We are finding out he even had a sense of humor??
ffr
(22,670 posts)Endangering American lives is an act of treason by any pResident, but especially an Impeached pResident!
progree
(10,908 posts)It's clear from this that he is totally serious about what he considers too much testing being a bad thing and all's it does is find more cases
The only humor he attempted was ridiculing testing a 10 year old "with the sniffles who will recover in about 15 minutes", and they find he tests positive, and "that's a case, that's a case" as if that's somehow ridiculous and somehow shouldn't be counted as a case.