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The U.S. Home Choose Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Disaster is holding a listening to Friday to query Well being and Human Providers Secretary Alex Azar on the U.S. response to the pandemic.
It’s Azar’s first look in Congress since February, Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), the subcommittee chair, mentioned.
The listening to will concentrate on “the Trump Administration’s unprecedented political interference within the work of scientists and public well being consultants on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention and Meals and Drug Administration,” in response to the subcommittee’s web site.
Final month, HHS introduced Michael Caputo, the division’s former high spokesman, introduced he would take a 60-day medical go away after he accused scientists on the CDC have been engaged in “sedition” towards President Donald Trump.
And the listening to comes hours after Trump introduced he and the primary woman each examined optimistic for the coroanvirus. In a tweet, Azar mentioned on Friday that he examined unfavorable for the virus and would testify in individual.
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