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Politico reports:
Senate Democrats exploded in frustration during a conference call with Vice President Mike Pence and Trump administration officials on Friday afternoon, with one normally laid-back senator asserting it was the most maddening phone call he’s ever taken part in, according to participants and people familiar with the call.
The call between President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force and Senate Democrats on Friday left the Senate minority “livid,” according to one Democrat on the call, because of the lack of clear answers about national testing for the disease.
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) called it a “dereliction of duty,” said a second person on the call. King added: “I have never been so mad about a phone call in my life.”
Newsweek reports:
Democratic lawmakers were left furious and dissatisfied after a conference call Friday with White House officials over the Trump administration’s inability to test large swaths of the public for the novel coronavirus, characterizing the federal government’s national testing capability as “inadequate.”
The conversation was between Senate Democrats and Vice President Mike Pence, along with additional members of the White House COVID-19 task force.
Some people have been denied tests or been forced to wait several days to learn of their results as a testing backlog persists, despite inaccurate, misleading or false claims made by President Donald Trump on the topic in recent weeks.
No matter what you do for the Do Nothing Democrats, no matter how GREAT a job you are doing, they will only respond to their Fake partners in the Lamestream Media in the negative, even in a time of crisis. I thought it would be different, but it’s not. In fact, it’s even worse…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 18, 2020
….Example! V.P. Mike Pence held a conference call yesterday with all Democrat Senators. He gave them everything that they would have wanted to hear in terms of gaining ground on the CoronaVirus, but nothing that anyone could have said, including “it’s over”, could have made….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 18, 2020
….them happy, or even a little bit satisfied. They were RUDE and NASTY. This is their political playbook, and they will use it right up to the election on November 3rd. They will not change because they feel that this is the only way they can win. America will not be fooled!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 18, 2020
To Trump “rude and nasty” means they asked why Trump on Feb 26 bragged that when only 15 cases of coronavirus in the US at the time that it would soon be ZERO! #MANSLAUGHTER pic.twitter.com/9lOC4w5U8p
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) April 18, 2020
Awww they were rude and nasty pic.twitter.com/NQo4oQTGRu
— Comfortably Numb? (@YGalanter) April 18, 2020
RRRAAAGHH WE WILL NOT BE FOOLED GRRR AARRGH pic.twitter.com/j61WLocK2g
— Soviet Sergey (@SovietSergey) April 18, 2020