House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said a new congressional panel intended to oversee the distribution of coronavirus relief funds 'will be forward-looking'
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said on Sunday that a new congressional panel intended to oversee the distribution of coronavirus relief funds “will be forward-looking” and not probe President Donald Trump’s widely criticized initial response to the ongoing public health crisis.CNN’s “State of the Union.
Pelosi emphasized that the committee “is about the here and now” and would not take the place of another potential panel, akin to the 9/11 Commission, meant to perform a comprehensive review of the outbreak’s origins in the United States. But Clyburn’s reinforcement of Pelosi’s message and description of the committee’s mission is likely to further rankle some House Democrats who have called for more aggressive scrutiny of the federal government’s early management of the novel coronavirus’ rapid spread across the country.
Those efforts by the administration were marred by a failure to mount a comprehensive testing operation and muddled by Trump’s repeated attempts to downplay the coronavirus’ threat to Americans.The Surgeon General told states pleading for aid that they have to “be Rosie The Riveter" and “do your part.”
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