House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Sunday the coronavirus pandemic now hitting the United States must bring Americans together.
In an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” McCarthy said by dropping past partisan divisiveness amid the COVID-19 crisis, the nation will come out stronger.
“At this moment in time Republicans, Democrats and all Americans need to come together,” he urged. “Our job is to make sure we get through this virus attack… and make sure we're safe and we're going to take actions we haven't taken before, and we will come out stronger just as we have before.”
McCarthy said the Trump administration is pushing for the fast-tracking vaccine for coronavirus.
“We have had some changes within the FDA in this Trump administration, to streamline, to make sure nothing from the [bureaucracy]… is holding it up,” he said. “And we've got a lot of smart companies out there already working together. Remember when Ebola hit. It was an American company that got the vaccine. We were able to use [the National Institutes of Health] to make sure that containment happened.”
According to McCarthy, the next four weeks will be “critical,” and why Trump administration proposals for battling the outbreak “are smart in the long run.”
“The next four weeks where we need to be smart, act together, and find a way that we… will not have that peak but measure this out."
Ultimately, he said, "we'll talk about the ingenuity of our companies that got a vaccine for it and how we were prepared ahead of time just like we did by increasing funding to the NIH and [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] for the last four years.”
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