GOP lawmakers: Fauci may be doing more harm than good

[William769]

Republican Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.) and Ken Buck (Colo.) criticized Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, for the impact his social distancing recommendations have made, claiming that the stay-at-home policies informed by these recommendations have forced businesses, workers and corporations into economic turmoil.

For Fauci, is it merely a societal or economic inconvenience that about 17 million workers are unemployed because of the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic, with many more to come in the weeks and months ahead? The economic calamity lies largely with the origination of policies resulting from Fauci's recommendations," the lawmakers wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Examiner published Saturday.

Biggs and Buck, both members of the conservative Freedom Caucus and staunch allies of President Trump, join others on the right in criticizing public health officials on the administration's coronavirus task force. On Tuesday, Tucker Carlson, a conservative commentator on Fox News, said Fauci "shouldn't be making economic decisions."

The lawmakers' op-ed comes as the United States has seen record increases in unemployment. In the first week of April more than 6 million people filed for unemployment, according to data released by the U.S. Labor Department. More than 10 million people applied for unemployment in the last two weeks of March, as businesses shuttered due to fears of the pandemic's spread.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-lawmakers-fauci-may-be-doing-more-harm-than-good/ar-BB12uwE4?ocid=msedgdhp

I hate every last low life asshole in the republican party.

[onecaliberal]

1. +1,000,000,000

I hate every last low life asshole in the republican party.

[Pillow talk]

2. are these men economist?

[Takket]

14. both were attorney's before going into politics.......

in other words... they have no clue what they are talking about either as economists or medical experts.

[SharonAnn]

15. "Biggs and Buck, both members of the conservative Freedom Caucus and staunch allies of" ... Trump

[Flaleftist]

3. The GOP cares more about their portfolios than human lives.

It seems they are also concerned about "socialist" programs that will help get us through this while minimizing fatalities.

[cos dem]

4. If Ken Buck (rhymes with f.cking a$$hole) says it's a bad thing,

that's the only endorsement I need to know that this is the right thing to do.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. The incompetence shown by this party / so called 'freedom' caucus will bring these scumbags...

down ... more concerned about the dow jones industrial averages than human life. The scabs have been finally pulled off of this totally inhuman party and the filth populating its membership. Incompetence and ideology rules primary here, and nothing else, not logic, not common sense, not health.

[William769]

6. ...

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Washington Examiner

That tells us everything we needed to know.
These two "Freedom Caucus" idiots are just crying because they're back benchers again, now that the dems too the majority.

[GeorgiaPeanut]

8. The only thing Trump had was the economy (even though it was Obama's)

and as the economy tanks, Trump's reelection chances dim exponentially.

They are worried about their own election because Trump will have negative coattails.

The idiots had a chance to remove Trump but they blew it badly.

[Cha]

9. the gop killing squad isn't doing anything but death.

[Andy823]

10. So let me see now

someone like Anthony Fauci, who actually has the credentials to do this job, according to Tucker, shouldn't be making and decisions about when it might be safe to open up things up, but idiots like him, Hannity, the Fox News morons, and a narcissist ass named trump who thinks he knows everything but I reality only cares about making money off of this pandemic, should be listened to? I don't think so!!!!!

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. What a pair of idiots.

[William769]

12. Clarification please.

There are several pairs in the House & Senate the the pair at the White House.

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. In this instance, Briggs and Buck.