The White House said today (May 1, 2020) that top U.S. health official Anthony Fauci will not testify next week to a congressional committee examining the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Reuters website.
"It is counter-productive to have the very individuals involved in those efforts appearing at congressional hearings," White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a statement.
Fauci's testimony was being sought for a May 6 hearing by a House Appropriations subcommittee that overseas health programs, said spokesman Evan Hollander.
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been one of the leading medical experts helping to guide the U.S. response to the highly contagious virus that has swept across the United States.
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