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Scalise: Biden Broke Promise to 'Shut Down the Virus'
Washington, DC,
December 29, 2021
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel’s Hannity last night to discuss how House Democrats are covering for President Biden and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) by still refusing to investigate the evidence showing that the coronavirus originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Whip Scalise emphasized that when Republicans take back control of the House of Representatives they will investigate the origins of COVID-19 and hold the CCP and the Biden Administration accountable.In addition, Whip Scalise blasted President Biden’s awful leadership and highlighted that Biden broke his promise to "shut down the virus" because his vaccine-only strategy ignores therapeutics and other lifesaving treatments. Whip Scalise called out President Biden for refusing to work with Republican governors who have developed a strategy to lower COVID-19 infections and deaths in their states and urged President Biden to end his national mandates that are hurting American families, workers, and small businesses.
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On Democrats refusing to work with Republicans to uncover the truth about the coronavirus’ origin: "Right, Pete. And this is something that we've been calling on for over a year to have an investigation into the origins of COVID. There are a lot of scientists all across the political spectrum who are now suggesting that it started in the lab in Wuhan. Not from a bat to an animal to a human, and yet Democrats are covering for China from Joe Biden on down."Remember it was Joe Biden as a candidate who said anybody who presides over that many deaths from COVID should not remain President of the United States? That was when he was a candidate. And he also said, 'I will shut down the virus.' How's that worked out because he's had a vaccine-only strategy?"And by the way, that vaccine was developed through Operation Warp Speed, which was Donald Trump's initiative that [Biden] criticized so much as a candidate. Now he's benefiting from it, but he's had a blind eye to therapeutics, to natural immunity, so many other things that could be reducing the number of deaths and shutting down the virus. He won't confront these challenges, and he won't confront China. We surely will when [Republicans] win the House back."On Democrats’ disastrous handling of COVID-19: "Pete, you see some of these autocrat Democrats, they just can't give up the power. They want control over people's lives. They're taking away freedom. And look, President Biden will not acknowledge what's worked because he has disdain for people like Ron DeSantis."He won't admit that people like Governor DeSantis were right when he had trucks going around in the hotspots with monoclonal antibodies to be administered in the places where the outbreaks were happening. That's how Governor DeSantis reduced his numbers, but [Biden] was too busy criticizing Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbott and other governors who figured it out."And now he says, 'There is no national strategy.' Well, then how about you get rid of the national mandates and let the governors who have figured it out go and teach the governors who haven't what to do? You know, people like Governor Cuomo who killed thousands of people in nursing homes because he didn't follow the science when people like Governor DeSantis were."
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