'What the hell is wrong with them?': Biden rips Republicans for refusing to don masks during siege

President-elect Joe Biden is taking aim at some Republican members of Congress who refused to wear masks while huddling in secure rooms last week during the storming of the Capitol.

"It was shocking to see members of the Congress while the Capitol was under siege by a deadly mob of thugs refuse to wear a mask while they were in secure locations," the president-elect said on Friday. Biden spoke as he unveiled what he called a "bold" plan to speed up the distribution of coronavirus vaccinations that he termed a "dismal failure" under President Trump’s administration.

Pointing a handful of GOP members of Congress who refused to put on masks offered by their Democratic colleagues as they and their staffs sheltered in a cramped, windowless room, Biden asked, "What the hell’s the matter with them?"

He added: "It’s time to grow up. The result – at least four members of Congress today – including a cancer survivor – now have COVID-19 who were in those rooms."

Members of Congress were quickly moved to secure rooms in the Capitol after the seat of the nation’s government was attacked in an insurrrection launched by right-wing extremists and other Trump supporters who were trying to... (Read more)

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