The Cover-Up Goes Viral, Con't

The Trump regime is blocking House testimony from CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield and other HHS and CDC health officials, saying that employees are too busy "fighting the pandemic" to bother with Democratic concerns about opening schools.

The White House is blocking US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield and other officials from the agency from testifying before a House Education and Labor Committee hearing on reopening schools next week, just as the debate over sending children back to classrooms has flared up across the US.
White House officials informed the committee of its decision in an email, a staff member on the House panel told CNN. 

"Dr. Redfield has testified on the Hill at least four times over the last three months. We need our doctors focused on the pandemic response," a White House official said, confirming the decision to block the CDC's participation in the hearing. 

But a spokesman for the House Education and Labor Committee said the panel had requested testimony from any CDC official, not necessarily Redfield.

"We asked for anyone at CDC who could testify at the hearing. The invite was not for Dr. Redfield or no one," the official said. 

House Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott said the testimony from CDC officials is critical to understanding how scientists would manage the reopening of US schools. 

"It is alarming that the Trump administration is preventing the CDC from appearing before the Committee at a time when its expertise and guidance is so critical to the health and safety of students, parents, and educators," the Virginia Democrat said in a statement.

The last thing Trump wants is a repeat of January, where executive branch people actually doing their job let slip that Trump is absolutely not doing his, so no CDC folks on the evening news saying "Yeah, the regime told us not to say anything about keeping 50 million schoolkids safe from a pandemic."

Depressing, but Democrats had to expect this. What they will do in response?  Pretty much nothing. SCOTUS surely won't interfere and subpoenas will be ignored or health officials will be fired.

Dems keep playing a game that has rules. Trump plays whatever he wants.

Not exactly a fair fight.