House Republicans late on Monday invited outgoing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky to testify before Congress on her agency’s COVID-19 handling, a signal of the GOP escalating its oversight into “undue influence” during the pandemic.
The GOP-led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic demanded a trove of records from Walensky in late March following revelations that the CDC sought input from the American Federation of Teachers, a powerful teachers union, on school reopening guidance in February 2021. But since Walensky has “yet to produce a single responsive document,” the committee is re-upping its request and setting a June 13 date for the official to provide testimony and information on the CDC’s ties to the union’s president, Randi Weingarten.
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“We have been negotiating the appearance of CDC Director Walensky since early May and look forward to her voluntary …