Trump's "joke" about not testing: Top Democrats say Trump is sitting on $14B for coronavirus testing

[Botany]

Vietnam has had zero deaths from C-19, New Zealand now has zero cases of C-19, Finland
has flattened the curve, the Czech Republic made wearing masks the law with great results,
but in Trump's America we are closing in on 125,000 dead.

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Top Democrats say Trump is sitting on $14B for coronavirus testing, contact tracing
Sens. Chuck Schumer and Patty Murray are calling on the administration to immediately free up the funds.


June 22, 2020, 7:25 AM EDT / Updated June 22, 2020, 7:30 AM EDT
By Rebecca Shabad
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has been sitting on nearly $14 billion in funding that Congress passed for coronavirus testing and contact tracing, according to Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Patty Murray of Washington.

The top Democrats said in a letter Sunday to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar that the Trump administration has "still failed" to distribute more than $8 billion out of $25 billion appropriated by Congress to expand testing and contact tracing. The letter indicated that Congress passed these funds as part of a coronavirus relief bill in April.

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President Donald Trump told a crowd of his supporters at his first campaign rally in months Saturday that he wanted to slow down testing for the coronavirus.

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Trump officials defended the president Sunday, including top White House trade adviser Peter Navarro who said on CNN's "State of the Union" that Trump's remark "was tongue-in-cheek."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/top-democrats-say-trump-sitting-14-billion-coronavirus-testing-contact-n1231688

[Thomas Hurt]

1. The Pig wanted to ignore COVID from the start since it endangered his polling.

He has not had a change of heart or his mind. If we test we might upset the stock market again.

The sick f**k is trying to walk right up to the line.

[Botany]

2. I wonder if he wants to kill us?

In Nov. 2019 Trump and Kushner were told about the virus and the coming pandemic
and instead of getting the US and the world ready they chose to try to make money off
of it with their H.C.Q. and their own C-19 test kits and then they sent 18 tons of PPE
to China in Jan. and Feb. of 2020.

[lagomorph777]

3. Really, you are still wondering?

Turd is a natural born killer, plus his boss is paying him to kill us.

[dalton99a]

4. Kick