White House won't let Fauci testify to House on coronavirus, but denies he's 'blocked'
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany denied on Wednesday that the Trump administration had blocked Dr. Anthony Fauci from testifying before a House committee, calling the charge “farcical.” But the bottom line is that he is not scheduled to testify.
McEnany, in her second briefing in her new role, blamed House Democrats, saying that Chairwoman Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., “did not act in good faith” when discussing Fauci’s possible appearance before her committee with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. Noting that Fauci is scheduled to testify next week before the Republican-controlled Senate, McEnany charged that a press release by Democrats saying Fauci was being silenced amounted to a “publicity stunt.”Pressed on whether the Democratic-controlled House had the same oversight function as the Republican-controlled Senate, McEnany, a former Fox News commentator who moved to the White House from the Trump reelection campaign, dodged the question.
Last Friday, White House spokesman Judd Deere said that it would be “counterproductive” to have Fauci, who is the leading expert on infectious diseases on the coronavirus task force, testify while continuing to work on the pandemic.
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