House Committee Subpoenas Redfield, Azar To Provide CDC Documents: ‘Extensive’ Political Interference
The House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis was put together in April to oversee the Trump Administration’s handling of the pandemic. Since then, the bipartisan committee has mostly flown under the radar —…
The House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis was put together in April to oversee the Trump Administration’s handling of the pandemic. Since then, the bipartisan committee has mostly flown under the radar — until this week.
The committee subpoenaed documents from the nation’s top medical figures on Monday: Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Robert Redfield. The House committee, which is chaired by Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), say they are looking into political interference by HHS employees.
In the letter to Redfield and Azar, Rep. Clyburn announced that he was subpoenaing all documents “relating to efforts by political appointees at the Department of Health and Human Services to interfere with scientific work conducted by career officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
Monday’s letter to Azar and Redfield is the subpoena follow-up to a September 14 letter requesting “transcribed interviews and documents regarding efforts by political appointees at the Department of Health and Human Services to block the publication of accurate scientific reports by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention