{"id":1142533,"date":"2021-12-22T14:49:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T19:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1142533"},"modified":"2021-12-22T14:49:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T19:49:49","slug":"psaki-challenged-on-tone-over-at-home-test-kit-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-challenged-on-tone-over-at-home-test-kit-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki challenged on tone over at-home test kit proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpsaki-challenged-on-tone-over-at-home-test-kit-proposal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1142533&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2620061\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2620061\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2620061\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/paii-655x437-1.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 22: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House December 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. Earlier on Wednesday, President Biden spoke on measures the White House is using to mitigate supply chain bottlenecks, incentivizing new truck driver hirings and expanding domestic production. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/paii-655x437-1.jpg 655w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/paii-315x210.jpg 315w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/paii-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/paii.jpg 1024w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2620061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 DECEMBER 22: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House December 22, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 11:39 AM PT \u2013 Wednesday, December 22, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was forced to backpedal after getting into a heated exchange with a reporter over a proposal the Biden administration ended up implementing. On Tuesday, Joe Biden explained his plan to deliver around 500 million at-home rapid testing kits to those who request them online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, we have over 20,000 free testing kits. Yes, we\u2019ve used the Defense Protection Act and spent $3 billion to greatly expand the number of at-home tests available for purchase online and at your local pharmacy,\u201d Biden said. \u201cAnd yes, we made sure insurance covers the PCR test you get at a hospital or at your doctor appointments. But starting next month, private insurance will also cover at-home testing. So, you can order a test online and get reimbursed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Psaki\u2019s previous criticism of the idea when she was asked in the Briefing Room. A reporter confronted Psaki with the question of why wouldn\u2019t the tests just be free and available everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki snapped back stating, \u201cshould we just send one to every American? Then what happens if every American has one test? How much does that cost and then what happens after that?\u201d The reporter then pointed out how many other countries are \u201cmaking them available in greater quantities for less money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the administration has now decided to ship out free COVID tests to Americans, reporters were curious on Tuesday if Psaki had reflected on her attitude when giving her original response. She didn\u2019t appear to have a straight answer.<br \/>[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cI would say there\u2019s not a day that goes by that I don\u2019t leave this podium and wish I would have said something of greater context or more precision or additional information,\u201d said Psaki. \u201cAnd that day, there was a lot of good questioning on testing and during that briefing, I conveyed a lot of information about our expansion of testing, about the 50 million tests that we\u2019re making available, about the 20,000 free testing sites\u2026and should I have included that additional context in that answer? Yes. Going back I wish I would have done that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the mocking tone of White House officials towards potential approaches to combat the pandemic, the tests will reportedly be available for delivery beginning in January.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/youngkin-appoints-education-secy-slams-crt\/\">Youngkin Appoints Education Secy., Slams CRT<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}