As the coronavirus continues to ravage cities like New York City, death tolls have yet hit their apex, and millions of Americans have been confined to their homes coast-to-coast, congressional Democrats in Congress area already threatening to launch an investigation into President Donald Trump’s response to the pandemic.
“After Pearl Harbor and 9/11, we looked at what went wrong to learn from our mistakes,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said in a tweet Wednesday. “Once we've recovered, we need a nonpartisan commission to review our response and how we can better prepare for the next pandemic.”
After Pearl Harbor and 9/11, we looked at what went wrong to learn from our mistakes.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) April 1, 2020
Once we've recovered, we need a nonpartisan commission to review our response and how we can better prepare for the next pandemic.
I’m working on a bill to do that.https://t.co/uqO3BwVldN
Schiff, who already failed at one attempt to remove Trump from office after House Democrats voted to impeach him, added that Congress won’t form a commission or launch an official investigation until the pandemic has passed.
“We will need to delay the work of the commission until the crisis has abated to ensure that it does not interfere with the agencies that are leading the response,” he later told The Washington Post. “But that should not prevent us from beginning to identify where we got it wrong and how we can be prepared for the next pandemic.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was herself encouraging people to attend to San Francisco’s packed Chinatown parade as late as Feb. 24, has also called for a review of the White House’s response to the coronavirus, demanding answers to “what did [Trump] know and when did he know it.”
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