While Trump is acting like a leader, Pelosi seeks to politicize the crisis

Kimberly Strassel:
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Example: The Trump administration spent this week distributing ventilators, standing up small-business loans, dispatching hospital ships, erecting alternate care facilities, explaining virus modeling, revamping regulations to keep truckers on the road, and plastering the airwaves with information about hygiene and social distancing. Speaker Nancy Pelosi spent this week setting up a new House committee to investigate Donald Trump.

Nothing separates the shallow from the serious faster than high-stakes moments. At the federal level, Americans are seeing the serious in the White House task force briefings that provide daily updates on the government’s actions. When this is all over, we will find that the federal response was far from perfect. But we’ll also see that once the executive branch grasped the enormity of the problem, it moved with soberness, speed and a spirit of cooperation.
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Contrast this with Mrs. Pelosi, who seems to view the pandemic as one big political opportunity. She held up last week’s relief bill for days, attempting to cram into it unrelated election and climate provisions. She used a Sunday CNN appearance to accuse Mr. Trump of killing Americans. This week she announced a new special House committee that will “examine all aspects of the federal response to the coronavirus” and will have subpoena power. This is yet the latest Democratic machinery for investigating Trump and ginning up scandals.
There is an obvious lack of patriotism and willingness to cooperate in this crisis when it comes to Democrats like Pelosi.  She sees it as just another opportunity to attack the President rather than to help the people.  She should not be distracting the serious effort of trying to save lives by imposing requests for documents and testimony from those who are actually involved in trying to save as many lives as possible.

NY Times:

From Afar, Congress Moves to Oversee Trump Coronavirus Response

Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would move to form a special committee to scrutinize
the Trump administration’s response, including how more than $2 trillion in federal relief
money is being spent.
This looks like another bad-faith effort by Democrats in Congress to get in the way of the administration's efforts to help people deal with the coronavirus.

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