{"id":1161424,"date":"2021-12-27T14:34:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T19:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1161424"},"modified":"2021-12-27T14:34:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T19:34:48","slug":"we-didnt-reject-it-biden-claims-white-house-didnt-reject-mass-testing-before-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-didnt-reject-it-biden-claims-white-house-didnt-reject-mass-testing-before-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Didn\u2019t Reject It\u2019: Biden Claims White House Didn\u2019t \u2018Reject\u2019 Mass Testing Before The Holidays"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fwe-didnt-reject-it-biden-claims-white-house-didnt-reject-mass-testing-before-the-holidays%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=1161424&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--><p>President Joe Biden pushed back on claims stemming from a recent Vanity Fair article, saying that the White House never \u201crejected\u201d a call for mass COVID-19 testing before the Christmas holiday.<\/p>\n<p>VOA News reporter Steve Herman tweeted <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/failed-utterly-top-scientists-blast-biden-admin-over-report-it-rejected-expanding-rapid-tests\/\">Biden\u2019s<\/a> response to a question on the topic as he and First Lady Jill Biden boarded Marine One to leave the White House on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeparting the @WhiteHouse for Marine One with @FLOTUS, @POTUS is asked about the @VanityFair article alleging his administration rejected a holiday testing surge,\u201d Herman tweeted. \u201c\u2018We didn\u2019t reject it,\u2019 he replies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Departing the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WhiteHouse<\/a> for Marine One with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLOTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FLOTUS<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> is asked about the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VanityFair?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VanityFair<\/a> article alleging his administration rejected a holiday testing surge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t reject it,\u201d he replies.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Herman (@W7VOA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/W7VOA\/status\/1475519967189733378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/biden-coughs-through-his-covid-19-press-conference\/\">President Biden<\/a> gave a speech just before Christmas, addressing the rapidly-spreading Omicron variant and recent testing shortages, promising the American people that he would be sending out millions of test kits and adding that he wished he \u201chad thought about ordering a half a billion\u201d months earlier.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden repeatedly confused \u201ctest kits\u201d &amp; \u201cpills\u201d today when discussing shortages.<\/p>\n<p>Biden: \u201c500 million pills, I mean excuse me, 500 million test kits\u2026I wish I had thought about ordering a half a billion pills two months ago\u201d(again, he means test kits)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zFIr0cidFi\">pic.twitter.com\/zFIr0cidFi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tommy Pigott (@TommyPigott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TommyPigott\/status\/1473811574007771140?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former White House press secretary and Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer noted that Biden, despite his claims that he only wished he had thought to order millions of tests months earlier, had actually promised in early to September that he would deliver millions of tests by January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime to be blunt. There is something wrong with Joe Biden\u2019s memory. He doesn\u2019t remember his generals telling him to leave 2500 troops in Afghanistan. They did. He must not remember saying in September he would provide 300million Covid test kits. Now he says no one thought of it,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Time to be blunt. There is something wrong with Joe Biden\u2019s memory. He doesn\u2019t remember his generals telling him to leave 2500 troops in Afghanistan. They did. He must not remember saying in September he would provide 300million Covid test kits. Now he says no one thought of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AriFleischer\/status\/1474053359212670985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/joe-biden-500m-covid-testing-kits-pledge-september-1662589\">Newsweek<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p><em>On September 9, before the emergence of Omicron, Biden announced that his administration would commit $2 billion \u201cto purchase nearly 300 million rapid tests for distribution to community health centers, food banks, schools.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite his September promise, Vanity Fair reported on December 23 that the Biden administration had \u201crejected\u201d an October proposal meant to provide \u201cfree rapid tests for the holidays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Biden Administration Rejected an October Proposal for \u2018Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays\u2019<\/p>\n<p>This fall, Vanity Fair has learned, it dismissed a bold plan to ramp up rapid testing ahead of the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>\u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatherineEban?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KatherineEban<\/a>\u2069 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I5ugS4pq1L\">https:\/\/t.co\/I5ugS4pq1L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Geoff Pilkington (@geoffpilkington) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geoffpilkington\/status\/1474201514059223043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2021\/12\/the-biden-administration-rejected-an-october-proposal-for-free-rapid-tests-for-the-holidays\">report<\/a>, the White House held a Zoom meeting with COVID-19 testing experts, who recommended an aggressive testing strategy that would put more home tests into the hands of regular Americans:<\/p>\n<p><em>Three days after the meeting, on October 25, the COVID-19 testing experts\u2014who hailed from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Rockefeller Foundation, the COVID Collaborative, and several other organizations\u2014received a back channel communication from a White House official. Their big, bold idea for free home tests for all Americans to avoid a holiday surge, they were told, was dead. That day, the administration instead announced an initiative to move rapid home tests more swiftly through the FDA\u2019s regulatory approval process.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The goal, as stated by the testing experts, was to avoid the situation that brought <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/christmas-flightmare-thousands-of-travelers-stranded-for-holidays-after-omicron-forces-delays-cancellations\/\">holiday travel<\/a> to a near standstill last week: testing shortages amid a renewed surge of infections driven by COVID-19\u2019s Omicron variant, all just in time for the Christmas holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden pushed back on claims stemming from a recent Vanity Fair article, saying that the White House never \u201crejected\u201d a call for mass COVID-19 testing before the Christmas holiday. 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