Rep. Kevin McCarthy,r-Calif., is blaming China and its lack of transparency for hampering America’s efforts to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, but declares America will ultimately “solve this problem” for the world.
In an interview with Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” McCarthy charged that China withheld information at the start of the outbreak of COVID-19.
“China was not forthcoming and not allowing doctors in when President [Donald] Trump was requesting early on in December of last year,” he said.
“That's why we weren't getting all the information. Now that we have it, we know every single day we are learning something more about this and America will solve this problem not just for America but for the rest of the world,” pointing to vaccine trials and research.
McCarthy lashed out at Democrats when asked what Congress would be prepared to do to combat any economic slowdown caused by the outbreak.
“The challenge that we have is that Democrats are in power,” he said. “Will they do something to help the economy grow or are they caring more about politics to try to harm the president? And we've watched time and time again they always pick politics.”
McCarthy said he’s confident that Hunter Biden will be called before Congress to answer questions about his role on the board of Burisma in Ukraine when his father, Joe Biden, was vice president.
“You have Senator [Ron] Johnson [R-Wisc.] asking for a subpoena and rightfully so, and this shouldn't be about politics,” he said. “It should be about the rule of law and I would like to see Democrats care about this too and vote for this as well.”
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