Thread by @weareoversight

From the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Trump admin. interfered with key decisions at the nation’s top scientific agencies.

Here’s what journalists, watchdogs, & oversight agencies have uncovered about the politicization of science agencies.
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Last fall, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis released a majority staff analysis in October that found at least 47 separate incidents of political interference in the administration’s response spanning February through September 2020.
coronavirus.house.gov/sites/democrat…

The report noted that these incidents impacted every major facet of the public health response and were increasing in number and severity as the presidential election drew nearer.

An interim staff report analyzed Trump’s failure to respond appropriately to the Covid-19 outbreak. The report detailed his repeated downplaying of the crisis, 60 instances in which political appointees improperly interfered with the public health response, and more.

.@accountable_us released a report detailing nine months of politicization and misinformation on the part of Trump and his political appointees, including the pressuring and intimidation of career scientists working on the government’s Covid-19 response.
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