White House blocks Dr. Anthony Fauci from testifying before Congress next week, calls it 'counter-productive.'
After previously predicting the U.S. death toll would be roughly 60,000 from the novel coronavirus, Trump said Friday the U.S. will"hopefully" remain below 100,000 deaths.The White House has blocked Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the government'stask force, from testifying before House lawmakers next week, according to a Democratic spokesman for the House Appropriations Committee.
MORE: 'The American public doesn't know that we're getting those answers': How Congress is handling oversight during the coronavirus crisis Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases appears during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Coronavirus Preparedness and Response, March 12, 2020, in Washington, D.C."The Appropriations Committee sought Dr. Anthony Fauci as a witness at next week’s Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee hearing on COVID-19 response," Evan Hollander, the panel's spokesman, told ABC News.
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