White House officials clash on whether the CDC 'let the country down' on testing, signaling continued tensions between the agency and Trump administration
," NBC's Chuck Todd asked Navarro whether the president had confidence in the agency "as our lead on this pandemic."
"You should ask the president that question — not me," Navarro said. "Early on in this crisis, the CDC, which really had the most trusted brand around the world in this space, really let the country down with the testing, because not only did they keep the testing within the bureaucracy, they had a bad test and that did set us back.
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