{"id":1169970,"date":"2021-12-29T16:49:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T21:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1169970"},"modified":"2021-12-29T16:49:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T21:49:34","slug":"omicron-chaos-biden-waits-to-sign-contracts-for-500-million-test-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/omicron-chaos-biden-waits-to-sign-contracts-for-500-million-test-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron Chaos:\u00a0Biden Waits to Sign\u00a0Contracts for 500 Million Test Kits"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fomicron-chaos-biden-waits-to-sign-contracts-for-500-million-test-kits%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=1169970&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237434624-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Biden administration will wait until 2022 to sign contracts for the highly in-demand 500 million coronavirus test kits,&nbsp;according to White House coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients.<\/p>\n<p>After not acting on his promise to order enough testing kits ahead of the omicron variant, the White House has still not&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/white-house-expects-sign-contracts-covid-19-tests-next-week-2021-12-29\/\">executed<\/a>&nbsp;the purchase order for 500 million testing kits that Biden announced American taxpayers would purchase last week, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve ordered half a billion of the \u2026 test kits that are going to be available to be sent to every home in America if anybody wants them,\u201d Biden told ABC News\u2019 David Muir in an interview on December 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the answer is,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/28\/five-coronavirus-promises-joe-biden-broke-in-2021\/\">continued<\/a> in response to Muir\u2019s question if the absence of testing kits during the omicron chaos was \u201ca failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a failure,\u201d Biden&nbsp;claimed. \u201cI think it\u2019s \u2014 you could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI wish I had thought about ordering 500 million at-home tests two months ago,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Biden comments last week, Biden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/28\/five-coronavirus-promises-joe-biden-broke-in-2021\/\">promised<\/a> February 17 and March 11 that he would have tests available for those in need.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoeBiden<\/a> promised to &#8220;shut down the virus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He FAILED. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GNd7lzMdDX\">pic.twitter.com\/GNd7lzMdDX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NRCC (@NRCC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRCC\/status\/1473304907805515783?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Moreover, Biden also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/28\/five-coronavirus-promises-joe-biden-broke-in-2021\/\">pledged<\/a> in February of 2021 the nation would be back to normal by Christmastime, but after the delta and omicron variants have reached the U.S., Biden acknowledged the federal government cannot solve the spread of the Chinese virus.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Biden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/28\/joe-biden-to-impose-domestic-travel-vaccine-mandate-if-medical-experts-approve\/\">indicated<\/a>&nbsp;Tuesday he is willing to impose a federal domestic travel vaccine mandate&nbsp;if medical experts check off on the law.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The first thing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoeBiden<\/a> and I will do in the White House is get this virus under control.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHarris\/status\/1323439729988296704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci has given mixed comments about whether he will allow domestic travel to be restricted by a vaccination mandate.&nbsp;\u201cI think [it] is reasonable to consider,\u201d Fauci said Monday on MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>On CNN&nbsp;Fauci&nbsp;conveyed a different tone. \u201cI doubt if we\u2019re going to see something like that in the reasonably foreseeable future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration will wait until 2022 to sign contracts for the highly in-demand 500 million coronavirus test kits,\u00a0according to White House coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients. 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