On May 1, 2020, the White House announced that they would prevent top health official Dr. Anthony Fauci from testifying to a congressional committee examining the administration’s pandemic response. the White House called it “counterproductive” to have individuals involved in the response testify. White House spokesman Judd Deere said that the administration was “committed to working with Congress to offer testimony at the appropriate time.”

At the time, the US totaled 1,136,266 cases and 67,031 deaths. The White House later also blocked the CDC from testifying to Congress about school re-openings.

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