The White House is reportedly considering a massive overhaul at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the Trump administration tries to pin blame on the agency for its bungled response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The CDC would undergo a performance review, multiple officials told Politco, which first reported the news. The audit would likely highlight several failures like the inability to deploy working tests in the early months of the pandemic.
White House staffers have discussed narrowing the CDC's mission or adding political appointees, multiple senior administration officials said in the report. Over the last few months, President Donald Trump has been trying to deflect criticism of his response to the pandemic and could be looking for an entity beyond China to blame, the article said.
Top politicians including former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee, have been critical of Trump's handling of the crisis.
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