Senate Dems ask government watchdog to investigate ‘political pressure’ on FDA, CDC
COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than 212,000 Americans.
In their letter, dated Thursday and obtained first by ABC News, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., slammed the Trump administration for “repeatedly applying political pressure and imposing orders on career scientists that undermine the agencies’ credibility and independence.”
The Democrats urged the Government Accountability Office to “conduct an investigation to determine whether the CDC and FDA’s scientific integrity and communications policies have been violated and whether those policies are being implemented as intended to assure scientific integrity throughout the agency.”
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