Republicans attack Fauci and defend Trump at coronavirus hearing
WASHINGTON Republicans used a House hearing on the coronavirus pandemic to praise President Trump and sometimes criticize Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading member of the White House coronavirus task force who has sometimes earned the ire of conservatives.
The hearing took place Friday before a coronavirus subcommittee of the House Oversight Committee. Democrats had provocatively titled it The Urgent Need for a National Plan to Contain the Coronavirus.
In his opening statement, subcommittee Chairman James Clyburn, D-S.C., a leader of the Democratic caucus in the House of Representatives, referred to a Vanity Fair report published the day before that outlined how the Trump administration decided not to implement a national response early in the course of the pandemic because the viral outbreak appeared to be confined mostly to Democratic states.
Instead, the president has downplayed the severity of the crisis, claiming the virus will disappear, sidelining government experts who disagree and seeking to legitimize discredited remedies, Clyburn charged.
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