Opinion: Biden’s been breaking his promises on COVID tests all year — only to keep doing it again and again- By Post Editorial Board (New York Post) / December 26, 2021
In last week’s Omicron speech, President Joe Biden tried to show strong leadership by saying he’d make 500 million at-home tests available for free to all who wanted one. But it turns out his people haven’t even finalized the contracts yet — and, in fact, he’s been promising more tests all year.
New York Times reporters, to their credit, exposed the no-contracts-yet issue within a day of his speech, flagging that nothing would be available before New Year’s, let alone Christmas. Heck, the Web site to order them won’t even launch until January (at the earliest).
Which left Biden flubbering when ABC’s David Muir asked about it in what the prez surely hoped would be a softball interview Wednesday.
“You could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago,” the president said. “I wish I had thought about ordering 500 million at-home tests two months ago.”
