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Pelosi: Trump is "clearly" not listening to medical experts following disinfectant remarksUS House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on April 23. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at her weekly press conference criticized President Trump over his suggestion thatcould help cure coronavirus and linked the comments to recent comments from Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell suggesting that he thinks that bankruptcy and not more federal money might be best for state and local governments.
“The President is asking people to inject Lysol into their lungs and Mitch is saying that states should go bankrupt. It’s a clear, visible, within 24 hours, of how the Republicans reject science and reject governance. If you don’t believe in science and you don’t believe in governance. That’s their approach … we know that governance has a role and we know that science as a role and without science in our decision making we are not going to be on a very successful path," she said.
She went on to say, “unfortunately we’re seeing Republicans make comments with zero connection to science and facts. Just put that behind us and let’s go forward in a way that gets the job done for the American people. I’ve mentioned the President and his, let’s say, we can kill the virus by injecting disinfectants like Lysol into the body. Clearly and sadly, the President is not listening to medical experts. I don’t know which ones he is listening to if any.
Wearing a bandana around her neck, but not covering her face, Pelosi called the climbing coronavirus death count “staggering,” saying that “many people, as am I, are quite shaken by the fact that we havePelosi noted that it has hit close to home for some members of Congress. “We heard Maxine’s sister is dying,” she said in a reference to Rep. Maxine Waters.
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