Trump appointees oversaw a concerted effort to restrict immigration at the U.S.-Mexican border during the pandemic, change scientific reports and muzzle top CDC officials, according to emails, text messages and interviews gathered by a congressional panel.
officials detailed a months-long campaign against Schuchat sparked by Trump appointees’ belief that her grim
assessments of the pandemic reflected poorly on the president, leading Schuchat, a 32-year CDC veteran, to openly wonder if she would be fired in the summer of 2020, her colleagues told the panel.
The plan was backed by the travel industry and “could have made a significant contribution” by curbing infections and deaths ahead of a fall and winter virus surge that year, Cetron added, but Trump officials blocked the measure. President Biden later issued aRedfield and other officials told the panel that they believed they might be fired if they angered the White House, hindering CDC’s ability to fight the virus.
The order was “handed to us,” Cetron told the panel, saying that then-White House adviser Stephen Miller was among the officials who discussed the immigration restrictions. Other
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