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House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News on Saturday a brutal combination of Chinese Communist Party lies and Democrat political gamesmanship led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have combined to inflict serious health and economic pain on the American people.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told Breitbart News on Saturday that he is moving to reopen his state’s economy starting next week because the United States depends on Texas’s success to thrive.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduced the NO PORK Act on Friday, which would strip the $350 million in refugee funding in the CARES Act and redistribute it to the U.S. Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

The greatest threat the coronavirus poses to America is the Democrat push for mail-in-voting and ballot harvesting, said Sebastian Gorka.

On Monday after President Donald Trump announced he was going to halt funding to the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) as the country continues to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, congressional Democrats and some in the media decried the gesture. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) went as far as calling it “illegal.” Some on Capitol Hill likened it to the justification for Trump’s impeachment proceedings. Representative Mike Rogers (R-AL) dismisses his colleagues’ barbs as “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

New Mexico GOP chairman and former U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce told Breitbart News his party’s victory in the state Supreme Court against a scheme by leftists to institute voting by mail is a win for election integrity.

Adm. Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary of health (ASH), told Breitbart News exclusively on Tuesday that the federal government is developing a broad-based effort consisting of wide-scale testing, surveillance, and contact tracing to be able to control the spread of coronavirus once the president makes the decision to reopen America.

Appearing Monday on KNST AM 790, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) said he believes it is time for Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and White House coronavirus task force member, to step down from his post.

“What the American people need to know now is we actually have data, and so we’re tracking that data,” Adams said.

“The blood’s on their hands,” Rep. Ralph Norman said of Democrats blocking financial relief for small businesses hurt by the coronavirus outbreak.

Former Donald Trump White House official Matt Mowers told Breitbart News Saturday that Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) continues to “play politics” with the coronavirus response. 

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News Saturday that the United States needs to hold China’s feet to the fire for its central role in the coronavirus pandemic, stressing that its position in key organizations need to be reexamined and adding that the communist country should pay for the spread of the disease, in part by forgiving U.S. debt.

China co-opts U.S.-funded international organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO) — an arm of the United Nations (U.N.) — as part of its geopolitical strategy, explained Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA), explaining his legislative proposal to conditionally defund the WHO.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday about his proposal to reopen society and “reactivate the economy” through extensive coronavirus immunity testing.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) administrator Dr. Stephen Hahn told Breitbart News exclusively on Wednesday that his agency is working with private industry leaders to bring more antibody testing and promising potential plasma-based treatments for the coronavirus to the American public.

Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) proposed legislation to allow the Justice Department to investigate and sue China for the coronavirus outbreak.

Americans want to “pull together as a country” to overcome the coronavirus outbreak despite the efforts of news media outlets such as CNN, said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), offering his remarks on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Friday that Free Press has moved to “weaponize” the FCC against broadcasters and conservatives to stifle political speech.

President Donald Trump’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) through the Department of Treasury and Small Business Administration has already on its first day pushed out more than $620 million to small businesses nationwide mostly through community banks.

The coronavirus pandemic provides an opportunity to restore American manufacturing and China should be held accountable for the crisis, said Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben said Tuesday the Trump administration and the coronavirus task force are together working every day to stop the pandemic. He is confident they are making good progress to that end, including the development of medication to treat the virus that could change the trajectory of its spread in the coming weeks.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) skipped several hours of the impeachment trial to talk to members of the administration about coronavirus, a new report says — further proof impeachment distracted most of Congress at a crucial time.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue, a member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet, told Breitbart News this weekend that the “real modern-day heroes” fighting the coronavirus crisis are those making sure food supply chains are up and running through this prolonged national shutdown.

Gov. Tate Reeves a “one-size-fits-all approach” would be ineffective in Mississippi, calling for a “surgical” approach across cities.

Former Donald Trump administration staffer and Pennsylvania’s Eighth Congressional District candidate Jim Bognet told Breitbart News Saturday that it is “inexcusable” that freshman Democrat Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) has been playing “politics” with Congress’s response package.

For many, the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic outweighs the threat of the actual personal health impact of the virus itself. Addressing that concern was the goal of Congress, according to Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), the ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee.

America’s “mainstream media” often act as apologists for China’s Communist Party, noted Tom Cotton while discussing the coronavirus outbreak.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Breitbart News Daily on Friday that his legislation serves as a “long-term” solution to bring back pharmaceutical manufacturing to America.

Sen. Lindsey Graham told Breitbart News exclusively on Thursday that he is calling on governors, especially those in red states, to develop a fix to an unemployment loophole in the massive $2 trillion coronavirus rescue passage.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) offered tough talk on China, including its role in spreading a virus that has killed thousands around the world and holding the United States hostage by controlling the global drug supply, in a Thursday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

The Club for Growth Foundation will on Thursday release its 2019 congressional scorecard, which details how lawmakers voted on economic legislation, Breitbart News learned exclusively. 

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Wednesday urged Americans to support each other as lawmakers work to strike a deal on a measure providing economic relief during the coronavirus pandemic and blasted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for taking credit for the latest relief package.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has denied supporting notorious Chinese tech giant Huawei after his social media post appeared to praise the company in comparison to its American competitor, AT&T.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator and White House coronavirus task force team member Seema Verma told Breitbart News Daily how America can “overcome” the coronavirus and what the Donald Trump administration is doing to help Americans throughout the crisis.

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar told Breitbart News exclusively that President Donald Trump in the coming days will work with his medical and scientific advisers to make a determination on how and when to reopen the country after wide-scale closure in the effort to stop the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

Rep. Steve Scalise demanded Democrats to throw Pelosi’s bill in the trash and provide relief to Americans “today.”