House panel subpoenas for Azar, Redfield CDC documents
By Nathaniel Weixel - 12/21/20 10:06 AM EST
Top Trump administration health officials were subpoenaed by House Democrats on Monday, after an investigation showed "extensive" political interference with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
"Over a period of four months, as coronavirus cases and deaths rose around the country, Trump Administration appointees attempted to alter or block at least 13 scientific reports related to the virus," the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis said a letter.
The committee's chairman, Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), said he is seeking full, unredacted documents from Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and CDC Director Robert Redfield, after "HHS has made clear that it will not provide a timely and complete response to the Select Subcommittee’s requests on a voluntary basis."
HHS and the CDC did not immediately respond.
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