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Congress Unites Against Trump: “We Respectfully Decline This Offer For Now”

In a rare common message, the Democratic and Republican leaders of the US Congress on Saturday “respectfully” rejected the Trump administration’s offer to quickly screen senators who will return to Washington next week despite the coronavirus epidemic and instructions to confinement.

Major political rivals, Democratic House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell have split a joint statement saying “Congress wants to keep sending resources to front-line establishments, “such as hospitals.

The hundred American senators, whose average age is high, will return to Washington Monday for a plenary session after parliamentary holidays started at the end of March, and prolonged because of the pandemic.

The US capital is under confinement until May 15.

Nancy Pelosi said that the nearly 435 members of the Chamber would not return before, at least, the following week, following the recommendations of the doctor of Congress.

The Trump administration announced on Friday that it was sending portable devices to the Senate to quickly diagnose coronavirus cases.

On Saturday morning, Donald Trump tweeted that there was “extraordinary screening capacity in Washington for senators.” “Also for the Chamber, which should return but does not do so because of mad Nancy P.”, continued the American president, by affirming that portable screening devices of the company Abbot Laboratories would be installed.

“Congress is grateful for the administration’s generous offer to rapidly deploy screening capabilities on Capitol Hill,” Congress headquarters, “but we respectfully decline this offer for the time being,” replied the two leaders. from the Congress, Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell.

The hardest hit country with about 66,000 deaths, the United States has recorded more than 1.12 million cases, among its nearly 330 million inhabitants, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

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