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Covid has been creeping more and more back into the news. We recently reported that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, tested positive for COVID-19, the National Institutes of Health announced on Wednesday. The 81-year-old, who is fully vaccinated and twice boosted, is currently experiencing mild symptoms, will isolate and work from home, the NIH said. We also reported on the arrested owner of a Michigan pizzeria was arrested Friday morning after information came to light on her will to “violate the state’s food laws, public health orders and a court-ordered Temporary Restraining Order.” This arrest comes after recent problems related to Covid-19. According to Michigan attorney general Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, Marlena Pavlos-Hackney, the owner of the pizzeria in Holland Michigan, was arrested without incident on Friday.
It is now being reported that by Breitbart that n Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) reacted to reports that $15 million in coronavirus relief went to “anti-racism” and “social activism” programs for children by stating that there “ought to be a top-down audit and there ought to be consequences for where the money went.” And stating that no one had time to read coronavirus spending packages and “You can’t drop money from a helicopter as they did and try to back it up as being reasonable.”
Norman stated, [relevant remarks begin around 1:50] “Well, you know, Steve, the COVID package supposedly, 1.9 trillion, 2,700-page document. Nobody had time to read it. Now, when the facts come out about where that money went. And a lot of it — of the 15 million that you’re talking about [was] through the libraries and the museums and through the EPA as well, but they had programs that — like the museums in New York who had — who erected statues with the — based on getting $50,000. A lot of these programs had nothing to do with COVID. And there ought to be a top-down audit and there ought to be consequences for where the money went. You can’t drop money from a helicopter as they did and try to back it up as being reasonable. It had nothing to do with COVID.”
Issues with relief is nothing new to the Biden administration. We reported early last month that
CNN has not been friendly territory for the administration of President Joe Biden recently, as was evidenced again during an interview with the president’s commerce secretary.
The secretary, Gina Raimondo, was ambushed by CNN anchor Jake tapper who hit her with tough questions on the economy that she attempted to dance around and appeared to be unprepared for.
“You heard Secretary Yellen this week said she got it wrong about inflation. In July, you told Bloomberg that inflation would be temporary, about a year ago. As recently as six months ago, you were calling inflation a — quote – ‘short-term problem,’ not a long-term problem. So, you got it wrong too,” he said to start the interview.
“So, clearly, we are and Americans are struggling with inflation, but I don’t think anyone predicted Putin’s war in Ukraine or various other things that have happened that have been unexpected. I still think we will get inflation under control. We just have to stick with it and see it through. You know, I think it — it’s worth noting that gas prices are up $1.40 a gallon since Putin moved troops into Ukraine. So, the president and our team is doing everything we possibly can to get inflation under control,” she said, pinning the blame on the war.
