Scalise: CDC gave teachers union 'VIP access' for guidance on school reopening
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House Minority Whip Steve Scalise blasted the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Wednesday on "The Ingraham Angle," saying it put medical science aside for "political science."
Dr. Walensky, president of the CDC, speaks during a news conference, December 08, 2020, Wilmington, Delaware. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Rep. Scalise delivers remarks during a Republican-led forum on the origins of the COVID-19 virus at the U.S. Capitol on June 29, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) School officials were ‘alerted to a threat made to student safety’ on Monday afternoon and put the school on lockdown. (iStock)
"[What] he exposed through this is that it was political science, not medical science, that CDC used to put their guidance out on school reopenings," he told host Laura Ingraham. "And in fact, CDC was getting ready to come out with guidance that would have been more favorable toward opening schools. And then the teachers' unions … were given a sneak copy of it that no one else got, that we've been able to find and said, ‘OK, what do you think about this?’"
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