White House blocks Fauci from testifying before Congress

[mystery-ak]

White House blocks Fauci from testifying before Congress
By Mike Lillis and Morgan Chalfant - 05/01/20 06:11 PM EDT

House Democrats seeking Anthony Fauci's testimony on the coronavirus crisis have been rebuffed by the White House, which is blocking the nation’s top infectious disease expert from appearing next week on Capitol Hill.

Democrats had invited Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, to appear Wednesday before an Appropriations subcommittee examining the Trump administration's response to the pandemic, which has killed more than 64,000 people in the United States.

Evan Hollander, a spokesman for the panel, said Friday that Democrats "have been informed by an administration official that the White House has blocked Dr. Fauci from testifying."


Moments later the White House affirmed its position, saying that it would be "counterproductive" to have officials involved in efforts to defeat the novel coronavirus testify at congressional hearings at this time but that the administration would work with Congress to make them available “at the appropriate time.”

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/495752-white-house-blocks-fauci-from-testifying-before-congress

[PeteS in CA]

Translation: "We will not cooperate with your efforts to hinder our work."

[Right_in_Virginia]

The President has been grilled for two hours at a time every day for the past 45 days ... and these shits need to hold hearings?

[bilo]

The President has been grilled for two hours at a time every day for the past 45 days ... and these shits need to hold hearings?

Well said!

If the media wanted to get information out to the public they could have done it. Instead all they wanted to do was try and trip up Trump.