Congressional Report Highlights Trump’s Pandemic Failings

“More people died and more Americans lost trust in their institutions as a result of the federal government’s decisions made in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a newly released investigative report from the Democratic staff of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs,” ABC News reports.

“The committee’s majority staff said they endeavored to unpack why, from early on, the federal government appeared unprepared to address the pandemic — and why the Trump administration failed to adequately respond, while exerting partisan influence to exploit public health messaging as a political football.”