Pelosi Says Virus Task Force Head Birx Spreads Disinformation
- House speaker portrays veteran scientist as too close to Trump
- Birx pushes back, saying she sticks to data to save lives
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she doesn’t trust information from the coordinator of the White House’s coronavirus task force, the latest political skirmish over the U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
President Donald Trump has been spreading disinformation about the virus and Deborah Birx “is his appointee, so I don’t have confidence there, no,” Pelosi said on ABC’s “This Week.”