Trump administration revoked CDC ‘covid’ guidelines for faith-based communities over religious liberty concerns, show House Panel documents | added April 29

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The House subcommittee investigating the U.S. coronavirus response released new evidence on Friday detailing how Trump administration officials involved themselves in COVID-19 guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) related to faith-based communities.

The CDC had sent guidance for faith-based communities to the White House in May 2020. In an email exchange shared by the subcommittee, administration officials, including then-White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, discussed the proposal with officials offering edits. Then-Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Paul Ray, wrote in part of the email exchange, “the new CDC draft includes a significant amount of new content, much of which seems to raise religious liberty concerns.

In the attached, I have proposed several passages for deletion to address those concerns … If these edits are acceptable to you all, we could tell CDC, as early in the morning as possible, that they are free to publish contingent on striking the offensive passages.”