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9 Feb, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Yesterday, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis renewed their investigation into Trump administration political interference that hampered the pandemic response.

Here’s some of what the subcommittee has uncovered:
coronavirus.house.gov/news/press-rel…
The subcommittee released documents showing that Trump administration officials weakened CDC testing guidance in August 2020 to avoid identifying asymptomatic infections.
coronavirus.house.gov/news/press-rel…
According to a former HHS adviser Paul Alexander, White House officials opted to change the guidance because testing was “preventing the workforce from working” and would not allow schools to “optimally re-open.”
Emails also show that Health and Human Services appointees, possibly at former President Trump’s direction, worked on creating a model that would justify quickly reopening businesses in May 2020.
coronavirus.house.gov/sites/democrat…
The documents also reveal that Alexander pushed then-FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn to approve hydroxychloroquine and convalescent plasma as Covid-19 treatments.
Learn more about ongoing federal pandemic oversight efforts with our weekly Covid-19 Oversight newsletter. Read the latest here: americanoversight.org/covid-19-overs…

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The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump starts next week.

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Numerous state and local government officials reportedly participated in the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally. We’re investigating how those government officials participated in or promoted what quickly became a violent insurrection.
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Millions in CARES Act funds went to organizations that were ineligible, had engaged in misconduct, or didn’t use the funding as Congress intended.

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Two years ago, there was a partial power outage at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center.

Documents we obtained show inmate complaints about lack of access to medical care, use of force, and unsafe conditions in the days following the blackout.
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oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/e…
We’ve obtained complaints about conditions and medical access, reports indicating the use of restraints or force on inmates before and during the outage, as well as logs showing extreme high temperature variations in the days after the outage.
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