The Utah senator and Trump nemesis dresses down an admiral over testing
has had enough of the Trump administration’s happy talk on testing.
On Monday at the White House, appearing before a banner reading, “America Leads the World in Testing,” President Trump attempted to spin his administration’s deadlyinto a success story: “This week, the United States will pass 10 million tests conducted — nearly double the number of any other country,” Trump said. “We’re testing more people per capita than South Korea, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Sweden, Finland, and many other countries — and, in some cases, combined.
Adm. Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services, who is now running point on the federal testing effort, puffed up the president and the administration. “No other country in the world comes close to the total numbers,” he said, before echoing the day’s talking point. “No matter how you look at it, America is leading the world in testing.”
But at a hearing of the Senate’s top health committee on Tuesday, Romney took time to dress down the admiral. The Utah senator, the lone Republican vote to impeach Trump, was as forceful and direct as any Democrat on the committee, using his question time to deliver a lecture. “I understand that politicians are going to frame data in a way that’s most positive politically — but, of course, I don’t expect that from admirals,” Romney told Girior.
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