During an interview with 60 Minutes back in September, President Biden made a COVID claim that caught White House staffers off guard —it wasn’t part of his planned remarks.
“Mr. President, first Detroit Auto Show in three years. Is the pandemic over?” host Scott Pelley asked while the two toured the floor of the famous auto show.
“The pandemic is over,” Biden claimed. “We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lotta work on it. It’s– but the pandemic is over. if you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so I think it’s changing. And I think this is a perfect example of it.”
But now, Hannity reports, the Biden Administration is looking for more COVID funding —$10 billion dollars to battle the virus even though the White House says that it is no longer a “disruptive force.”
From Fox News:
The White House said this week that while COVID is “no longer the disruptive force it was” a few years ago, new subvariants of the virus are still a threat. Its letter to outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said additional funding is needed to help the U.S. “stay prepared in the face of an unpredictable virus.”
“That is why we are requesting funding to help prepare for a possible winter surge, smooth the path to commercialization for vaccines and therapeutics, accelerate research and treatment for long COVID, and develop next-generation vaccines and treatments,” the White House Office of Management and Budget wrote to Pelosi. The White House wants $9 billion to fight COVID domestically and another $1 billion to help other countries keep COVID at bay.
But after trillions of dollars of spending on emergency COVID relief that many blame for high inflation, Republicans are saying enough is enough.
“President Biden wants ANOTHER $10 billion for ‘COVID funding,’” House Budget Committee Ranking Member Jason Smith, R-Mo., tweeted. “He said back in September that the ‘pandemic is over.’ He wants Congress to spend more money we do not have on a pandemic that, by his own words, does not exist.”
The 7-day average for new COVID cases in the U.S. is a little more than 44,000 as of November 20th.
More over at Fox News:
“It’s over”
“It never started”
“Cases are skyrocketing”