Michigan: Whitmer refuses to cooperate with GOP-led congressional inquiry on COVID-19 prevalence in nursing homes – IOTW Report

Michigan: Whitmer refuses to cooperate with GOP-led congressional inquiry on COVID-19 prevalence in nursing homes

Lifezette: Whitmer is facing some serious questions about why she moved COVID-19 patients into vulnerable nursing homes throughout the state.


Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) has declined a request by congressional Republicans to turn over records and brief committee staffers on the state’s handling of COVID-19 in Michigan’s nursing homes.

As reported by The Detroit News, Governor Whitmer indicated to Republicans on a U.S. House coronavirus committee that she wouldn’t cooperate with their inquiry, saying the panel’s investigatory authority does not lie with individual members and the committee’s jurisdiction cannot be “stretched” to include the health and safety of a state and its residents. “I hope that as members of a federal body tasked with oversight of the federal executive branch during this unprecedented public health crisis you refrain from encroaching on the sovereign power of a state government to deal with state matters,” Whitmer wrote in a letter dated Friday.

Through Sunday, at least 1,979 nursing home residents in Michigan had died of COVID-19, representing a third of confirmed virus deaths in the state. Health officials have reported 7,137 known cases of COVID-19 among nursing facility residents and 3,100 cases among staff. more here

15 Comments on Michigan: Whitmer refuses to cooperate with GOP-led congressional inquiry on COVID-19 prevalence in nursing homes

  1. Gin Blossom:

    Agree! How Wray is still the head of the FBI says all you need to know about AG Barr. Unless Barr pulls a rabbit out of a hat in a very short time, his slow-walking will be no less treason than jeff sessions’ bullshit.

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  2. “Yes, just like Andrew Johnson in 1863.”

    Jefferson Davis you old drunken bastard.

    Christ, I gave the best years of my life for these people….

    Don’t worry old man, we’ll get Rutherford B. Hayes in there to straighten things out…

    everything gonna’ be ire’.

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