Rare unity in US Congress on refusing Trump virus tests COVID19
WASHINGTON - In a rare joint message, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders on Saturday rejected the Trump administration's offer to conduct rapid coronavirus screening on senators who will return to Washington next week, stating that the tests should be reserved for the public.
"Congress wants to keep directing resources to the front-line facilities where they can do the most good the most quickly," they said. President Donald Trump had tweeted that there "is tremendous CoronaVirus testing capacity in Washington for the Senators returning to Capital Hill on Monday." However, Pelosi said her chamber's 435 lawmakers would not return to Washington for at least another week, in step with guidelines from the Capitol's attending physician.The Trump administration announced on Friday that it would send portable devices to the Senate to quickly diagnose any coronavirus cases.
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