Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer slammed President Trump’s new blueprint to ramp up coronavirus testing, saying that it lacked details about how states should implement the plan. 'It was pathetic,' he said.
“No one in the administration has given an answer specifically as to how the states should do it and that's one of the reasons I think we need to get the hearings,” Schumer said Tuesday.
He said he’d like to hear testimony from White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx; Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Small Business Administrator Jovita Carranza.Monday to help governors expand testing capacity in their states. The president said that the federal government and private sector would assist state, local and tribal governments in executing the plan.
Addressing Trump directly, Schumer said, “Mr. President Trump, Donald Trump, you're hurting the recovery you want so badly, by not having the tests. The best way to recover quickly is testing, testing, testing.”
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