“If I just take the words of the CDC and the president, the president is right,” said Kevin McCarthy.
President Donald Trump’s congressional allies and White House aides backed his rebuke of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield on Thursday, insisting they trusted the president over the nation’s top public health official on matters of face masks and vaccine development.
“I respect Dr. Redfield,” Sen. Lamar Alexander , chair of the Senate’s health committee, told reporters. But he declined to answer whether Americans should have confidence in the federal pandemic response when the president is undermining the CDC director and offering conflicting information. At a White House news briefing hours later, Trump took issue with both statements by Redfield, contending the CDC chief had “made a mistake” and that the “mask is not as important as the vaccine.”
Meadows said he anticipated the administration would “at least have some results” regarding a vaccine as soon as October, and that Trump was “pushing very hard to make sure that we’re delivering a vaccine before the end of the year.”
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