Pelosi: McCarthy is “Such a Moron” for Criticizing Mask Mandates

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called her counterpart, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) “such a moron” aft helium announced his absorption to a disguise mandate successful the House amid a nationwide surge successful Covid-19 cases.

Last night, McCarthy criticized disguise mandates arsenic “not a determination based connected science” but 1 “conjured up by wide authorities officials who privation to proceed to unrecorded successful a perpetual pandemic state.”

Make nary mistake—The menace of bringing masks backmost is not a determination based connected science, but a determination conjured up by wide authorities officials who privation to proceed to unrecorded successful a perpetual pandemic state.

— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) July 28, 2021

McCarthy’s comments came aft the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that immoderate radical vaccinated for Covid-19 should resume indoor mask-wearing successful parts of the state that person seen a surge successful cases. The proposal marks a reversal of a argumentation announced conscionable 2 months agone and comes amid much reports of breakthrough infections with the Delta variant of the microorganism successful radical who were afloat immunized.

Pelosi backed the disguise mandate and earlier this greeting expressed her enactment for Brian Monahan, the Capitol doc who successful an interior memo said that each members of Congress “should deterioration a well-fitted, medical-grade filtration disguise (for illustration an receptor loop surgical disguise oregon a KN95 mask) erstwhile they are successful an interior space.”

“That’s the purview of the Capitol Physician … the mandate from him. I person thing to accidental astir that but we grant it,” Pelosi told reporters extracurricular the Capitol.

“He’s specified a moron,” she said erstwhile asked astir McCarthy’s remarks earlier getting into her car and leaving.

You tin ticker the speech successful the interrogation below.

Pelosi says McCarthy is “such a moron” erstwhile asked astir his disapproval of the reinstated disguise mandate successful the House. pic.twitter.com/4dlYlMrTlQ

— jay svoboda (@jaysvoboda) July 28, 2021