{"id":1161637,"date":"2021-12-27T15:36:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T20:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1161637"},"modified":"2021-12-27T15:36:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T20:36:03","slug":"after-promising-to-shut-down-the-virus-biden-now-claims-there-is-no-federal-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-promising-to-shut-down-the-virus-biden-now-claims-there-is-no-federal-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"After Promising To \u2018Shut Down The Virus,\u2019 Biden Now Claims \u2018There Is No Federal Solution\u2019"},"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%2Fafter-promising-to-shut-down-the-virus-biden-now-claims-there-is-no-federal-solution%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=1161637&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>Democrat President Joe Biden told governors on Monday that there was \u201cno federal solution\u201d to combat the coronavirus pandemic and that challenges needed to be tackled at the state-level.<\/p>\n<p>Biden made the remarks after Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson (R), chairman of the National Governors Association, spoke about challenges his state is experiencing in responding to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so one word of concern or encouragement for your team is that as you look towards federal solutions that will help alleviate the challenge, make sure that we do not let federal solution stand in the way of state solutions,\u201d Hutchinson said. \u201cAnd the production of 500 million rapid tests that will be distributed by the federal government is great. But obviously that dries up the supply chain for the solutions that we might offer as governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few moments later, Biden responded, \u201cLook, there is no federal solution. This gets solved at the state level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BIDEN, TODAY: \u201cThere is no federal solution\u201d to COVID.<\/p>\n<p>BIDEN, 2020: \u201cI\u2019m going to shut down the virus.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3d1RaHRcyX\">pic.twitter.com\/3d1RaHRcyX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1475507614821892099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden repeatedly promised on the campaign that he was going to \u201cshut down the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As Biden prepares to release yet another Covid \u201cplan\u201d tomorrow, recall that his *only* pitch when running for election was that he\u2019d \u201cshut down\u201d the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Biden looked us all in the eye and lied through his teeth. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gj7YLxS4PB\">pic.twitter.com\/gj7YLxS4PB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jake Schneider (@jacobkschneider) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobkschneider\/status\/1472981795205529609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-states-fix-omicron-covid-governors-call\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Biden, however, has put the federal government in a central role on pandemic mitigation measures. The Education Department opened&nbsp;civil rights probes&nbsp;into several states for banning school mask mandates. The president continues to mandate masks in airports, airplanes and on public transportation \u2013 and his administration increased fines for those who don\u2019t comply.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And the administration is currently going to the Supreme Court to defend its vaccine mandate for any private businesses with more than 100 employees.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Biden later spoke about the dramatic need to increase testing capacity amid a surge of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor over the counter at home tests, as I said, there, there were none when we took office, none. Now we have eight on the market,\u201d Biden said. \u201cAnd just three days ago another test was cleared. We went from no over the counter tests in January to 46 million in October, 100 million in November, and almost 200 million in December. But it\u2019s not enough. It\u2019s clearly not enough. If I had, we\u2019d known, we would have gone harder quicker if we could have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden says if he had \u201cknown\u201d about the winter surge in COVID, he &#8220;would have gone harder and quicker\u201d on testing.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is lying. He was warned! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1XcUa7iXda\">pic.twitter.com\/1XcUa7iXda<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1475511030189076486?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coronavirus experts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/failed-utterly-top-scientists-blast-biden-admin-over-report-it-rejected-expanding-rapid-tests\">reportedly<\/a> presented the administration with a 10-page plan more than two months ago that would expand America\u2019s ability to quickly detect the virus by producing hundreds of millions of rapid tests per month for use by Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan called for an estimated 732 million tests per month, a number that would require a major ramp-up of manufacturing capacity,\u201d Vanity Fair&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2021\/12\/the-biden-administration-rejected-an-october-proposal-for-free-rapid-tests-for-the-holidays\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe antigen tests at the center of the plan can detect the virus when patients are at their most contagious. Though less sensitive than polymerase chain reaction (PCR) laboratory tests, which can detect the virus\u2019s genetic material at any stage of infection, antigen tests provide a quick snapshot in time for those seeking assurance that they are safe to travel or won\u2019t accidentally infect vulnerable relatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plan might have prevented problems that the U.S. is currently experiencing as many Americans are trying to find tests during the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree 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,\u201d the report added. \u201cTheir big, bold idea for free home tests for all Americans to avoid a holiday surge, they were told, was dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vanity Fair also cited an \u201cadministration official\u201d who was allegedly at the meeting, who claimed that such a plan simply wasn\u2019t possible at the time: \u201cWe did not have capacity to manufacture over-the-counter tests at that scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Top scientists slammed Biden over the report, including:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Steven Phillips<\/strong>, a vice president of science and strategy for the Covid Collaborative: \u201cThe White House, in baseball terms, was playing small ball. When it comes to rapid testing, they\u2019re bunting the players along.\u201d<strong>Dr. Jerome Adams<\/strong>, former U.S. Surgeon General: \u201cWondering if \u2066@COVIDOversight \u2069will hold hearings on this? Or WH refusal to supply better masks? Or if we\u2019ll just keep only talking about 2020?\u201d<strong>Dr. Rick Bright<\/strong>, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority: \u201cSurprised that expert external guidance was shelved in light of an ongoing pandemic. Seems contradictory to comments that some wished they\u2019d had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat President Joe Biden told governors on Monday that there was \u201cno federal solution\u201d to combat the coronavirus pandemic and that challenges needed to be tackled at the state-level. 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