House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered blistering criticism of President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Friday, saying the two Republicans “reject science and reject governance” in the face of the coronavirus pandemic that has so far killed more than 50,000 Americans.
Pelosi delivered her remarks at her weekly news conference in the nation’s capital one day after the House of Representatives passed a $484 billion relief bill to ramp up coronavirus testing and to aid small businesses and hospitals affected by the pandemic. The measure was passed on Tuesday in the Senate, after which McConnell said in an interview that he would be “in favor” of letting states declare bankruptcy rather than receive more federal aid.
Returning to Trump’s suggestion Thursday that disinfectants and light might be used to treat COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, Pelosi piled on what has been a torrent of criticism of the president. Story continuesTrump told reporters at the bill-signing ceremony for the relief act that he was speaking “sarcastically” in speculating about using disinfectants to treat COVID-19.
“You know, I put on a ban on China before anybody in this country died. I put on a ban. And so you tell me. Nancy Pelosi was having — she wanted to have a street party in Chinatown in San Francisco at the end of February,” Trump said at a coronavirus task force briefing Monday. “That’s a month later. … Nancy Pelosi is holding a street fair. She wants a street fair in San Francisco, in Chinatown, to prove — you know what the purpose of it was — to prove that there’s no problem.
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