possibly keep track of every home test people are taking and quarantining since people aren t reporting it. how is it the white house has a handle on the rise in cases if they don t know how many cases are out there? he was accurate when he said there is no federal solution although it will make a lot of people wonder since he has emphasized his testing plan since he was a candidate back in march you will recall he enacted a nearly $2 trillion covid plan that included section 2401 on testing. more than $47 billion. if congressional overseers are interested in looking into this, there is a big question of why that wasn t done. however, i think for a lot of people when you see a lot of governors now thinking that the biden testing effort next month, whenever it ends up rolling out, is probably not going to matter much. they are focused on treatment,
the camera there. when he gets a recommendation from the medical team. he considers to receive criticism not for the vaccination numbers but the testing. testing is and continues to be a serious problem with people waiting not one or two but three or four hours in line to get a test in some places. the president admitted his team was behind the 8 ball on testing and to make matters worse the fda expressed concerns about the antigen rapid tests where you swab your nose and gives you results in 15 or 20 minutes. there are concerns how accurate they are. the administration plans to send out 500 million tests to homes if people request them. something top medical experts maintain should have been done a year ago if not more on a continuing basis to stay ahead of the testing curve. then there was a vanity fair report, detailed investigation into the fact according to the report that the white house turned down an opportunity to get ahead of the testing several months ago.
school last fall. they were only out from mid-march until the beginning of june. she has done an extremely good job. we had testing throughout different communities in iowa last year, drive-by testing and testing kits which had been pre-ordered and handled. benjamin: it has been one more point. i just want to get to one other issue, the president biden has signed the national defense authorization act into law including several provisions from yourself. 2.7% pay raise for the troops, improved servicemen mental health services. ban taxpayers funds going to the taliban and require investigation in china s involvement in the origins of covid-19. explain how you got those provisions in. they were very significant to get in.
tornado outbreaks swept through the south leveling communities and killing at least 92 people. the u.s. is looking to turn the page on a tumultous year for the economy. turning the page to 2022. something americans are desperate to do. worries and upset plaguing americans all year. a new president with dreams of leadership. president biden: america is back. america is back. diplomacy is back. by the time president trump handed the mantel to president biden three vaccines were ready to go. a few months later america was back on her back with joe biden s vaccine mandate facing challenges even by the supreme court, long lines for limited testing of covid, inflation at a 40 year high and crime spiking across the country and
paying attention. if one were teaching a journalism class, are news organizations xyz covering biden with the same terms of scrutiny as they did with trump when presented with the same exact scenario? you don t have to answer that. the american people are not dumb and they are paying attention. like they do with inflation, benjamin or crime or education, they know what they see and feel on a daily basis. poll after poll shows fewer and fewer americans trust the messenger and media. not every news organization but more and more it seems. these aren t the days of con cite or russert anymore. that s for certain. there is no excuse for this president and administration at this point to be lacking testing for americans. we see the lines on our tv screens and we see it in towns and cities across the country when we go out. they had a year to prepare for the winter holiday surge. there was even a report saying we should ramp up testing.