Senate Republicans plan coronavirus probe -- with a focus on China
Source: Politico
The Senate's main oversight committee is beginning a wide-ranging probe into the origins and response to the coronavirus pandemic, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson said in an interview on Monday.
Johnson (R-Wis.) said that his committee is "going to conduct oversight on this thing in its entirety." He listed off several elements of the probe: Why the national stockpile wasn't "better prepared," why pharmaceutical ingredients and medical devices are manufactured overseas, the World Health Organization's response to the virus and how the virus spread in the first place.
But its not clear how closely President Donald Trumps performance is going to come under the microscope from the GOP-led panel, with Johnson and other Republicans mainly focused on China and the WHO.
"Where did this all start from? Was this transferred animal to human? Was this from a lab in China? Might have been the best of intentions trying to come up with the different cures, with the different therapies for the coronavirus in general," Johnson said, echoing some conservative theories. "We need to know what role WHO might have had in trying to cover this thing up."
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)RKP5637
(67,109 posts)dalton99a
(81,513 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)meeting in Burisma's top-secret basement hacking/pedo/bioweapon laboratory!!!1!!
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)Thanks!
Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)The GOP has hired OJ to look for the real killer.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)vote them out!
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)This needs to be referred to as the "Find a scapegoat for Trump's horrific fatal failures here in the US" Senate un-intelligence committee
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)What a bunch of shit.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)possible, better than anyone could have expected, despite receiving no help at all from the Obama administration, and they will dedicate many pages of their final report to thanking donald Trump for his visionary leadership.
lark
(23,102 posts)They are pointing at everyone else in the world to distract from the missing in action lack of performance (on purpose) of drumpf. They want to distract from the rampant profiteering that caused 20,000+ Americans to die for the money bags of drumpf and feckless kid douchebag.
still_one
(92,204 posts)is they cannot justify how they were warned by multiple sources of the seriousness of this situation, including those within trump's administration, and they still refused to take it seriously, only demonstrates how badly trump dropped the ball