{"id":1190531,"date":"2022-01-05T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1190531"},"modified":"2022-01-05T12:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:04:15","slug":"white-house-chief-of-staff-ron-klain-criticized-testing-shortage-in-2020-but-now-the-biden-admin-faces-its-own-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-chief-of-staff-ron-klain-criticized-testing-shortage-in-2020-but-now-the-biden-admin-faces-its-own-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Chief Of Staff Ron Klain Criticized Testing Shortage In 2020, But Now The Biden Admin Faces Its Own Crisis"},"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\">42<\/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%2Fwhite-house-chief-of-staff-ron-klain-criticized-testing-shortage-in-2020-but-now-the-biden-admin-faces-its-own-crisis%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=1190531&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><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>An old tweet from White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klain criticizing the shortage of coronavirus tests in June of 2020 is coming back to haunt him as the Biden administration struggles amid a testing shortage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTesting still isn\u2019t fixed. Testing still isn\u2019t fixed. Testing still isn\u2019t fixed. We are the richest country on Earth, and we don\u2019t have enough SWABS. Testing still isn\u2019t fixed. Testing still isn\u2019t fixed,\u201d Klain tweeted June 26, 2020.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Testing still isn\u2019t fixed. Testing still isn\u2019t fixed. Testing still isn\u2019t fixed. We are the richest country on Earth, and we don\u2019t have enough SWABS. Testing still isn\u2019t fixed. Testing still isn\u2019t fixed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aa3oxDASl1\">pic.twitter.com\/aa3oxDASl1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonaldKlain\/status\/1276502449898041344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>President Joe Biden recently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/28\/joe-biden-clearly-not-enough-covid-19-testing-available\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">admitted<\/a> that while his administration has made efforts to make testing more available, it\u2019s \u201cclearly not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went from no over-the-counter tests in January to 36 million in October, 100 million in November and almost 200 million in December,\u201d Biden said. \u201cBut it\u2019s not enough. It\u2019s clearly not enough.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/23\/joe-biden-covid19-tests-long-lines-christmas-omicron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: As Americans Spend Hours In Line For COVID Tests This Christmas, Here\u2019s A History Of Biden\u2019s Broken Promises On Tests)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The administration announced on Dec. 21 plans to purchase 500 million at-home <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/27\/doctor-anthony-fauci-should-more-covid-at-home-tests-americans-holidays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rapid tests<\/a> that would be available free of charge for Americans who request one online.<\/p>\n<p>The administration, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/24\/white-house-covid-tests-octobor-proposal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rejected an October proposal<\/a> that would have provided rapid, at-home COVID tests to Americans, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2021\/12\/the-biden-administration-rejected-an-october-proposal-for-free-rapid-tests-for-the-holidays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vanity Fair<\/a>. The plan pushed for roughly 732 million tests per month and included information on a \u201cTesting Surge to Prevent Holiday COVID Surge,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old tweet from White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klain criticizing the shortage of coronavirus tests in June of 2020 is coming back to haunt him as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"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-1190531","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\/1190531","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190531\/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=1190531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}