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.
There might be a reasonable explanation for this. But in light of the president’s braindead belief that too much testing means we have more cases, it wouldn’t be surprising if the sniveling sycophant Alex Azar was withholding the fund in order to “slow it down.”
Here’s Trump’s latest babble on the subject, proving once again that he’s got serious cognitive impairment. He simply cannot understand that we would have the COVID cases even if we didn’t test for them and probably a lot more sickness and death since the epidemic would be even more out of hand. Nonetheless, it’s clear he’s done everything he can to stop testing to “keep his numbers down.”
“Too good of a job.”
120,000 people are dead, hundreds of thousands more have become extremely ill and may have permanent damage to their health. The lack of testing early is how we got here. It’s still inadequate.
Trump simply does not understand that this is a life and death issue for average Americans. He sees it as a competition and the winner is the one with the lowest number of cases. Because he is corrupt to his core, he believes he will win if he rigs the numbers and the economy will rebound and everyone will think he is a hero.
He is demented.