Chair of the Congressional Asian Caucus, Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., said 'insisting on identifying the virus by region, as Leader McCarthy and Rep. (Paul) Gosar have done, only creates fear and hostility.'
In a statement, the chair of the Congressional Asian Caucus, Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., said "insisting on identifying the virus by region, as Leader McCarthy and Rep. Gosar have done, only creates fear and hostility."
Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, and Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., the co-chair of the Native American Caucus, all called on Gosar and McCarthy to apologize as well. "Coronavirus is a China-born disease—made worse by a Communist Party that rejected America's help to contain it," he said, noting that some media outlets and Democrats had referred to the virus as a"Chinese coronavirus."
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