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PHOENIX – The nation's leading coronavirus policymaker should be out of the job as quickly as possible, U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona said Wednesday.
Immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci isn't a pandemic specialist, Biggs told KTAR News 92.3 FM's The Mike Broomhead Show.
"He has admitted two things that I think are critical: … he doesn't trust any of the [virus] models anymore because they're all proven to be unreliable and yet he's the guy that has basically relied on all those unreliable models and given us so many policies," Biggs said.
Republican Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs joined the Daily Caller's Stephanie Hamill to share his thoughts on restarting the American economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.
President Donald Trump is putting together a new council that will influence when the countryshould be reopened. No date has been set yet.
WASHINGTON — Leading Republicans say the coronavirus shutdown cannot go on. Car-honking activists swarmed a statehouse Wednesday to protest stay-home restrictions. Capitol Hill staff are quietly drafting bills to undo the just-passed rescue aid and push Americans back to work.
Behind President Donald Trump's effort to accelerate re-opening the U.S. economy during the pandemic is a contingent of GOP allies eager to have his back.
Reps. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), and 38 other members of Congress sent a letter to the White House on Monday encouraging the government not to send those $1,200 checks to illegal aliens.
PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey might ease a ban on surgeries that's caused severe pain for hospitals and some of their patients.
The move would mark Ducey's first significant walkback of coronavirus restrictions in the 21 executive orders he's issued, as the national debate grows over returning to a normal way of life.
Arizona hospitals have sounded the alarm in recent days about the enormous financial hit they've taken from Ducey's executive order March 19, banning elective surgeries or procedures by doctors, as well as dentists.
A group of House Republicans is calling on the Senate to officially confirm Russell Vought as the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
The GOP lawmakers say Vought is qualified for the role and that the Senate should move to confirm him.
"Before he was the Acting Director of OMB, Mr. Vought served in the House of Representatives, the Senate, and as a public policy expert in the private sector. In all three roles, Mr. Vought has consistently advocated for a balanced budget, fiscal restraint, and family values," they wrote in a letter.
AIMING FIRE AT FAUCI -- President Donald Trump and his allies seem to be turning on Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert who has been the trusted face of the coronavirus task force. Take this op-ed in the Washington Examiner from GOP Reps.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) said in an op-ed on Saturday that Dr. Tony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx should no longer be the "primary voices at the table" advising the president on the coronavirus response.
They cited both Fauci and Birx's alarming models that later proved not to be accurate, as well as statements that seemed insensitive to Americans who are suffering from the shutdown of the nation's economy.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently said, "It's inconvenient from a societal standpoint, from an economic standpoint to go through this." It is interesting sometimes that a brief comment can reveal the heart and mind — and in this instance, a special degree of tone deafness.
Republican Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.) and Ken Buck (Colo.) criticized Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, for the impact of his social distancing recommendations, claiming that the stay-at-home policies informed by those recommendations have forced businesses, workers and corporations into economic turmoil.