Sunday shows – White House COVID-19 response coordinator says US is ‘turning the corner’
by The Hill staff
Jeff Zients, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, said in an interview on Sunday that the United States is “turning the corner” in its battle against the coronavirus.
Anthony Fauci also discussed the pandemic, and multiple guests weighed in on the push to remove Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) from her House Republican leadership position over her anti-Trump stance.
"Well, the fact that we have vaccines right now, Chuck, is really a game changer," Anthony Fauci told host Chuck Todd on NBC's "Meet the Press." "I mean, if we get, which we will, to the goals that the president has established, namely if we get 70 percent of the people vaccinated by the 4th of July, namely one single dose, and even more thereafter, you may see blips. But if we handle them well, it is unlikely that you'll see the kind of surge that we saw in the late fall and the early winter."
Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House COVID-19 response team and President Biden's chief medical adviser, said Sunday that he believes it is likely that the U.S. has undercounted the number of deaths caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that other countries need to “chip in” amid India's struggle against a surge in COVID-19 cases that is crippling the country.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said in the wake of an April jobs report that widely missed economists' projections that the U.S. has “a long way to go to recover from the pandemic."
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (R-S.C.) on Sunday slammed the Republican Party, saying the GOP is “losing its way on all fronts” while pointing a finger at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), the chair of the conservative Republican Study Committee, told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the House Republican Conference chair, should not have a role in leadership if she continues to call out former President Trump.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) on Sunday said that the Republican Party has to allow for differences when asked about the push to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) from her leadership position as House Republican Conference chair because of her anti-Trump stance.
"Well, it's sort of a circular firing squad where we're just attacking members of our own party, instead of focusing on solving problems or standing up and having an argument that, that, that we can debate the Democrats on some of the things that the Biden administration is pushing through," Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) explained.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) slammed President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure proposal for what he said were misplaced priorities.
"President Trump issued those statements as a mob was ripping through the Capitol, as members of Congress were cowering in fear," Michael McConnell said.
