Les écoliers n’osent plus aller aux toilettes, ils accusent le manque de propreté et d’intimité. D’ailleurs, près de la moitié des élèves de CM1 et CM2 se plaignent de maux de ventre parce qu’ils n’y vont que “lorsqu’ils ne peuvent pas faire autrement“. C’est le constat alarmant dressé par l’Observatoire national de la sécurité et de l’accessibilité des établissements d’enseignement (ONS) qui vient de rendre public son rapport 2007.

L’enquête a été réalisée auprès d’enseignants volontaires de CM1 et CM2 et de leurs élèves. Près de 25 000 questionnaires recueillis sur 55 départements ont été étudiés. Ils révèlent que 73 % des élèves fuient les toilettes en raison des mauvaises odeurs pour d’entre eux, alors que 57 % se plaignent du manque de propreté et la moitié les jugent “peu accueillantes“.
Les médecins s’inquiètent et dénoncent l’augmentation des pathologies liées à la non-fréquentation des toilettes. Il apparaît dans l’étude qu’un enfant sur cinq souffre d’infection urinaire et 15 % subissent une constipation chronique ou aiguë.
L’étude ne porte que sur des établissements primaires mais l’ONS estime que “la problématique concerne l’ensemble des niveaux d’enseignement“. Il s’agit d’un problème de santé publique non négligeable car il peut être source de mal être, voire d’échec scolaire pour l’enfant.
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Rapport de l’ONS – 29 janvier 2008

Une dizaine de personnalités seront présentes, les 14, 15 et 16 mars 2008, pour l’inauguration du Paris-Pékin à vélo. Le village temporaire se tiendra sur l’esplanade du Trocadéro du 14 au 16 mars. Christine Lagarde (Ministre de l’économie et des finances, et membre du comité d’honneur), Bernard Laporte (secrétaire d’état aux sports et ancien entraîneur du XV de France) viendront ainsi encourager et soutenir les 120 participants de la première édition.
En près de cinq mois (120 jours de vélo et 20 jours de repos), les participants vont devoir parcourir 12 000 km et traverser 12 pays, sous une chaleur prévue entre 35 et 40°C.
Au programme, du vélo bien sûr, sur des terrains vallonnés, plats ou montagneux, mais aussi des visites touristiques et culturelles. Car l’objectif de cette aventure est de pédaler mais aussi de s’imprégner de la culture chinoise en visitant ses sites emblématiques et en explorant le patrimoine national. Des rencontres sont aussi prévues pour favoriser l’échange et le dialogue interculturel.
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“Alcool au volant : 1er facteur de mortalité. Arrêtons ça“. Le Gouvernement a annoncé une campagne de spots radio et télévisés contre l’alcool au volant quelques jours avant la période des Fêtes, particulièrement à risque. Elle s’articule autour de deux messages : “Soufflez, vous saurez“ pour promouvoir le réflexe éthylotest et “Sam, celui qui conduit, c’est celui qui ne boit pas“, pour inciter les jeunes à désigner un conducteur dès le début de la soirée.L’année 2007 confirme les conséquences du risque alcool, devenu première cause d’accidents de la route depuis 2006, devant la vitesse, le non-port de la ceinture et l’usage du téléphone portable. 1 031 décès et 4 790 blessés hospitalisés sont attribuables à l’alcool en 2007. L’alcool est présent dans 10,5 % des accidents corporels et dans 29 % des accidents mortels. Les victimes des accidents avec alcool sont essentiellement les conducteurs alcoolisés et leurs passagers, puisqu’ils représentent 85 % des personnes tuées.

“Soufflez, vous saurez“ : une campagne de sensibilisation du grand public pour promouvoir le réflexe éthylotestJean-Louis Borloo, Dominique Bussereau et Michèle Merli rappellent le geste et la solution pour savoir si l’on peut conduire après avoir consommé de l’alcool : l’autocontrôle d’alcoolémie avec un éthylotest. Pour faire entendre ce message au plus grand nombre, différentes communications sont programmées :
– Quatre spots télévisés sont diffusés du 22 au 31 décembre 2008;
– Cinq spots radio sont diffusés sur les stations généralistes du 20 au 31 décembre 2008 afin de rappeler à chacun la solution éthylotest;
– Des outils de prévention sont mis à la disposition du réseau de la Sécurité routière (affiche de sensibilisation, dépliant d’information et objets promotionnels).

Les jeunes et l’alcool au volant : dès la préparation de la sortie, adopter le réflexe “Sam, celui qui conduit, c’est celui qui ne boit pas“ Les jeunes continuent de payer un lourd tribut sur les routes : les 15-24 ans représentent 12,6 % de la population, mais 25,6 % des personnes tuées sur la route en 2007. Les accidents avec alcool ont occasionné 38 % des personnes tuées et 21 % des personnes blessées hospitalisées chez les jeunes de 18 à 24 ans, tranche d’âge la plus gravement touchée. 

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securite_routiereEn cette période de vacances scolaires et universitaires, Jean-Louis Borloo, Dominique Bussereau et Michèle Merli appellent les jeunes à s’organiser et à désigner avant de sortir “leur“ Sam, celui qui reste sobre et ramène ses amis sains et saufs après la fête. Pour relayer fortement ce principe simple qui peut sauver des vies, et qui prouve que fête et conduite responsable sont conciliables, des actions de sensibilisation sont menées spécifiquement en direction des jeunes :
– Cinq spots radio, et des messages enregistrés par les animateurs, sont diffusés du 19 décembre 2008 au 4 janvier 2009 sur trois antennes de radio musicale (Skyrock, Fun Radio et NRJ) pour rappeler la solution “Sam“;
– En partenariat avec les associations de jeunes, Sam se rend à la rencontre des jeunes de 18 à 25 ans dans de grandes villes de France et les invite à une séance photo-improvisée en sa compagnie. Le cliché est ensuite téléchargeable sur le site 100 % jeune de la Sécurité routière, sortezrevenez.fr, et sur la communauté Sam de Facebook;
– Une communication électronique prévoit la diffusion de bannières Internet sur des sites jeunes et la création d’un module téléchargeable d’organisation de soirées;
Click Here: Cheap QLD Maroons Jersey– Des outils de prévention sont mis à disposition du réseau de la Sécurité routière.
Soyez prudents pendant les fêtes… et après !
Source : communiqué de presse, Ministère de l’Ecologie, de l’Energie, du Développement Durable et de l’Aménagement du territoire, 18 décembre 2008

The federal judge presiding over former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s criminal case suggested on Wednesday that he is considering the possibility of holding President TrumpDonald John TrumpHouse Judiciary chairman hints at subpoenaing Barr Florida election supervisors urge DeSantis to ‘act immediately’ to make voting safe amid pandemic Paul claims Biden ‘caught red-handed’ eavesdropping on Flynn MORE’s former aide in contempt for perjury.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan also tapped a retired federal judge to argue against the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) motion to drop the criminal prosecution of Flynn.

John Gleeson, who spent 22 years as a judge and served as a federal prosecutor before entering private practice, will serve as an amicus curiae, or friend of the court, in opposition to the DOJ’s recently adopted position that Flynn’s case should be dismissed.

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Among the issues Sullivan has asked Gleeson to address is “whether the Court should issue an Order to Show Cause why Mr. Flynn should not be held in criminal contempt for perjury.”

The move comes after the DOJ last week asked Sullivan to drop the charges against Flynn for lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia shortly before Trump took office, despite Flynn having previously pleaded guilty.

That placed Flynn’s fate in the hands of Sullivan, a Clinton appointee who has been on the bench since 1994 and is regarded as having a fierce independent streak.

A group of more than a dozen former Watergate prosecutors on Tuesday expressed concerns to Sullivan that the DOJ could not be counted on to give the court a balanced presentation of the issues surrounding its move to drop Flynn’s prosecution. 

The Watergate prosecutors said DOJ’s move raised concerns about whether its decision was taken in good faith, and even suggested the court may have grounds to reject Flynn’s dismissal. In a forthcoming brief, the group said, they plan to address “whether the Court should instead deny the motion and proceed to sentencing.”

The extent to which Gleeson may adopt a similar line of argument before the court is unclear. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

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Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond, said Gleeson has a track record of adopting positions he believed to be fair, even if unpopular.

Before assuming the bench, Gleeson spent 9 years as federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York (EDNY), where he drew headlines for securing a conviction against mob boss John Gotti. President Clinton later appointed him as a district judge in the same federal district.

“He was a highly respected judge in EDNY and assumed positions that he thought were fair, such as mandatory sentences, even though they might not be popular,” Tobias said.

Updated at 7:55 p.m.

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The Trump administration asked the Federal Reserve Board to make changes to its lending program so that oil companies could qualify, Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette told Bloomberg TV Tuesday.

The expanded criteria to qualify for the Main Street Lending Program unveiled late last month closely matched requests from Sen. Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzMusk finds Trump in his corner OVERNIGHT ENERGY: House coronavirus bill aims to prevent utility shutoffs | Court sides with California, blocking Trump’s water diversion | Conservation groups file new suit over Trump border wall Energy chief said administration asked Fed to expand lending for oil companies MORE (R-Texas) and an industry group for small and mid-sized oil producers who said financing was needed to save the industry from bankruptcy. 

But Brouillette said Tuesday the board also faced pressure from the administration.

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He said he and Treasury Secretary Steven MnuchinSteven Terner MnuchinMusk finds Trump in his corner OVERNIGHT ENERGY: House coronavirus bill aims to prevent utility shutoffs | Court sides with California, blocking Trump’s water diversion | Conservation groups file new suit over Trump border wall Energy chief said administration asked Fed to expand lending for oil companies MORE were asked by President TrumpDonald John TrumpNew York Times: Reporter who called for CDC chief’s resignation went ‘too far’ GOP’s Don Bacon and challenger neck-and-neck in Democratic poll Cheney defends Fauci: ‘We need his expertise’ to defeat coronavirus MORE “to evaluate the programs that were passed by the Congress and ensure that there is access for these energy industries to those programs.”

“And that’s what we’ve done,” he said. “Secretary Mnuchin worked very closely with the Federal Reserve, we adjusted the program, the Main Street Lending Program, and made that program available to what we refer to as mid cap sized companies.”

The changes to the Main Street Lending Program irked some Democrats who said the administration was too eager to give assistance to the oil and gas industry.

“President Trump’s fossil fuel cronies lobbied and are going to take money that was meant to help businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic in order to bail themselves out of $200 billion in existing debt,” Sen. Ed MarkeyEdward (Ed) John MarkeyEnergy chief said administration asked Fed to expand lending for oil companies HHS to allow states to distribute Gilead’s remdesivir to combat the coronavirus Democrats rally behind monthly ,000 relief checks MORE (D-Mass.) said at the time.

The expanded program will benefit a number of industries, but it also opens the door to companies in more precarious financial circumstances. The updated guidelines eased restrictions on borrowing for heavily indebted companies and also allows them to use the loans to refinance existing debts — a departure from the first set of criteria released by the board.

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Brouillette said Tuesday the program would still have strict standards.

“What Secretary Mnuchin and I did was to identify those companies that really were impacted by COVID I mean, but for the COVID pandemic they would be strong,” he said, while companies on the verge of insolvency won’t qualify.

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THE BIG DEAL — House Democrats unveil $3 trillion coronavirus relief package: House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled their latest round of coronavirus relief legislation as they seek to put pressure on Republicans to start negotiations for additional measures to contain the pandemic’s impact on U.S. workers.

The 1,815-page, roughly $3 trillion legislation is a grab bag of top Democratic priorities ranging from funding for food assistance, state and local governments, contingency plans for vote by mail in the November elections, another round of direct stimulus payments to individuals and hazard pay for essential workers on the front lines of the pandemic. The Hill’s Cristina Marcos walks us through the bill here.

The goal: The House Democrats’ legislation is meant to lay the marker for their priorities heading into future talks with Republicans and the White House, although most of its provisions are not expected to become law.

• “We must think big for the people now, because if we don’t it will cost more in lives and livelihood later,” Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiEight surprises in House Democrats’ T coronavirus relief bill On The Money: House Democrats unveil trillion coronavirus relief package | SCOTUS divided in Trump financial records case | Fed under pressure to speed up, expand emergency loans Hillicon Valley: House Dems include .6 billion for mail-in voting in stimulus bill | Uber in discussions to acquire GrubHub | Trump backs effort to reopen California Tesla plant MORE (D-Calif.) said during an address in the Capitol after unveiling the legislation.
• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellObama criticism gets under GOP’s skin On The Money: House Democrats unveil trillion coronavirus relief package | SCOTUS divided in Trump financial records case | Fed under pressure to speed up, expand emergency loans McConnell, GOP senators support exempting VA health funds from budget caps MORE (R-Ky.) and the White House have called for a “pause” on considering additional relief legislation, and Republicans broadly have dismissed the Democratic package as an unrealistic liberal wishlist.

READ: House Democrats’ $3 trillion coronavirus relief package

But first, House Democratic leaders will have to get progressives on board.

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• The chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Reps. Pramila JayapalPramila JayapalOn The Money: House Democrats unveil trillion coronavirus relief package | SCOTUS divided in Trump financial records case | Fed under pressure to speed up, expand emergency loans Progressive lawmakers want Pelosi to postpone vote on T relief package House Democrats unveil trillion coronavirus relief package MORE (D-Wash.) and Mark PocanMark William PocanOn The Money: House Democrats unveil trillion coronavirus relief package | SCOTUS divided in Trump financial records case | Fed under pressure to speed up, expand emergency loans Progressive lawmakers want Pelosi to postpone vote on T relief package House Democrats unveil trillion coronavirus relief package MORE (D-Wis.), sent a letter to leadership on Tuesday calling to delay a vote on the bill until next week.
• Jayapal has championed a proposal that would provide direct federal grants to businesses to help with paying rent and fully maintaining workers’ salaries up to $100,000, but it did not make it into the bill.

More on the new Democratic relief package:

• Under the Democrats’ bill, most households would be eligible for another round of direct payments, this time for $1,200 per individual and $2,400 per married couple, plus an additional $1,200 per dependent, up to three dependents. The maximum payment amount a family could receive would be $6,000.
• The new coronavirus relief package released by House Democrats Tuesday would continue to add $600 to weekly unemployment benefits through the end of 2020.

LEADING THE DAY

Supreme Court divided over fight for Trump’s financial records: The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared divided over President TrumpDonald John TrumpNew York Times: Reporter who called for CDC chief’s resignation went ‘too far’ GOP’s Don Bacon and challenger neck-and-neck in Democratic poll Cheney defends Fauci: ‘We need his expertise’ to defeat coronavirus MORE’s assertion that the broad powers he enjoys as the nation’s chief executive override subpoenas for his financial records and tax returns.

Trump’s standoff with a trio of Democratic-led House committees and Manhattan prosecutors over his financial paper trail saw the justices raise divergent concerns about presidential immunity, congressional oversight and the power of prosecutors to gather evidence linked to a sitting president.

• The court’s more conservative justices tended to focus on the risk of granting Congress overly broad powers, including the potential for presidential harassment, while liberal justices aired concerns about placing unduly restrictive limits on lawmakers.
• One area of apparent common ground, though, was the view that the cases, which asked the justices to draw lines between the governmental powers, had handed them a difficult constitutional task.

The Hill’s John Kruzel takes us to the historic arguments.

Fed faces bipartisan pressure to speed up, expand emergency loans: The Federal Reserve is facing bipartisan pressure to quickly launch and expand two emergency lending programs designed to help businesses and local governments avoid bankruptcy during the pandemic-driven economic downturn.

During a Tuesday hearing, members of the Senate Banking Committee urged the Fed’s top regulatory official, Randal Quarles, to roll out the Main Street Lending Program and Municipal Liquidity Facility as soon as possible, with access to a wider array of potential borrowers.

• The bipartisan $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act signed into law on March 27 ordered the Fed to create two unprecedented emergency lending facilities for local governments and small businesses, backstopped with up to $454 billion in credit protection from the Treasury Department.
• Amid the partisan battle over another economic rescue bill, lawmakers are eager for the bank to launch each program with more than a month of economic damage sustained since the Fed first outlined its plans for the two new lending facilities.

“I’m very interested and, frankly, concerned about how quickly we can get the Main Street facility and the municipal facility active and operating,” said Sen. Mike CrapoMichael (Mike) Dean CrapoOn The Money: House Democrats unveil trillion coronavirus relief package | SCOTUS divided in Trump financial records case | Fed under pressure to speed up, expand emergency loans Fed faces bipartisan pressure to speed up, expand emergency loans Trump pick for pandemic response watchdog pledges independence amid Democratic skepticism MORE (R-Idaho), the Banking Committee chairman. I have more here.

GOOD TO KNOW

• The federal deficit for the month of April broke all records, hitting $738 billion, a number larger than many previous annual deficits, according to Treasury Department data released Tuesday.
• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and members of the Senate GOP caucus panned the roughly $3 trillion House coronavirus bill unveiled on Tuesday, declaring it “dead on arrival” in the Senate. 
• Prices of common food items such as meat and eggs spiked across the U.S. last month, with many Americans facing unemployment or furloughs due to the coronavirus also confronted with higher costs for staple items.
• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Tuesday that he and Sen. John CornynJohn CornynObama criticism gets under GOP’s skin On The Money: House Democrats unveil trillion coronavirus relief package | SCOTUS divided in Trump financial records case | Fed under pressure to speed up, expand emergency loans Senate Judiciary Committee calls for national safety guidelines amid liability hearing MORE (R-Texas) are working on legislation to expand liability protections for businesses as they begin to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic. 

ODDS AND ENDS

• The Trump administration asked the Federal Reserve Board to make changes to its lending program so that oil companies could qualify, Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette told Bloomberg TV Tuesday.
• President Trump on Tuesday threw his weight behind Elon MuskElon Reeve MuskMusk finds Trump in his corner On The Money: House Democrats unveil trillion coronavirus relief package | SCOTUS divided in Trump financial records case | Fed under pressure to speed up, expand emergency loans Hillicon Valley: House Dems include .6 billion for mail-in voting in stimulus bill | Uber in discussions to acquire GrubHub | Trump backs effort to reopen California Tesla plant MORE‘s push to reopen a California Tesla plant in violation of a county order aimed at containing the spread of coronavirus. 
• Op-Ed: “Congress must stop unemployment tax increases from worsening crisis”

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A British railway worker has died from COVID-19 after a man spit and coughed on her, according to the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA).

In early April, ticket office worker Belly Mujinga, 47, was rushed to the hospital 11 days after the man assaulted her and another colleague, TSSA said in a statement Tuesday, CNN reported.

Said she died on April 5, two weeks “after she was assaulted at Victoria station,” TSSA said.

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Mujinga reportedly had underlying respiratory conditions making her more vulnerable to the virus but was not offered proper protections by her employer, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR).

In a statement, TSSA said, “Belly and her colleague begged to be let to work from inside the building with a protective barrier between them and the public for the rest of that day.”

Mujinga and her coworker both completed their shift at Victoria station in central London after the assault on March 22 without any personal protective equipment. Her coworker also fell ill with the virus.

TSSA alleged that GTR knew about Mujinga’s preexisting conditions, and only took her claims seriously after her doctor called the rail company on March 25.

“As a vulnerable person in the ‘at risk’ category and her condition known to her employer, there are questions about why GTR didn’t stand her down from front line duties early on in this pandemic,” said Manuel Cortes, TSSA general secretary. “There are serious questions about her death. It wasn’t inevitable.”

GTR said it takes the allegations “extremely seriously” and is investigating the incident, CNN reported.

The union also reported Mujinga’s case to the Railways Inspectorate, in charge of safety for the Office for Road and Rail, which is reportedly investigating the incident, CNN added.

TSSA said there needs to be more protection guidance for workers that have face-to-face interactions with the public, calling for the government to offer additional measures to aid front line workers during the pandemic.

The official overseeing vaccines at Europe’s highest medical approval board said Thursday that “optimistic” predictions put approval of a coronavirus vaccine in early 2021.

Reuters reported that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Marco Cavaleri told reporters Thursday that his agency was working as fast as possible to speed up vaccine development, but cautioned that it would likely not be enough to see one on the market later this year.

“For vaccines, since the development has to start from scratch … we might look from an optimistic side in a year from now, so beginning of 2021,” he reportedly said.

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Cavaleri added that agency-approved treatments for the disease could go on the market within months.

President TrumpDonald John TrumpHouse Judiciary chairman hints at subpoenaing Barr Florida election supervisors urge DeSantis to ‘act immediately’ to make voting safe amid pandemic Paul claims Biden ‘caught red-handed’ eavesdropping on Flynn MORE has predicted in recent weeks that the U.S. would see a vaccine on the market before the end of 2020.

“We think we are going to have a vaccine by the end of this year,” he said during a virtual Fox News town hall earlier this month.

Trump and other conservatives have also promoted a host of possible cures for the coronavirus outbreak including hydroxychloroquine, which experts have cautioned requires more research before it should be considered a potential cure for the virus.

“What do you have to lose? Take it,” the president said in April, drawing criticism at the time. “I really think they should take it. But it’s their choice. And it’s their doctor’s choice or the doctors in the hospital. But hydroxychloroquine. Try it, if you’d like.”

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President TrumpDonald John TrumpHouse Judiciary chairman hints at subpoenaing Barr Florida election supervisors urge DeSantis to ‘act immediately’ to make voting safe amid pandemic Paul claims Biden ‘caught red-handed’ eavesdropping on Flynn MORE on Thursday criticized health official Rick Bright and said he should “no longer” be working for the federal government shortly before the whistleblower was slated to testify before a House panel about the Trump administration’s response to the novel coronavirus.

Trump tweeted that he had never met or heard of Bright, and claimed that the former federal vaccine doctor was not liked or respected by people who the president has consulted, labeling him a “disgruntled employee.”

“I don’t know the so-called Whistleblower Rick Bright, never met him or even heard of him, but to me he is a disgruntled employee, not liked or respected by people I spoke to and who, with his attitude, should no longer be working for our government!” Trump tweeted Thursday morning.

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Bright is expected to deliver critical testimony to a House committee later Thursday saying that the Trump administration was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic. He plans to warn that without a national coordinated response this year will be “the darkest winter in modern history,” according to a leaked copy of his prepared remarks.

Bright served at the helm of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) from 2016 until last month when he was reassigned to a narrower position based at the National Institutes of Health.

Bright filed a whistleblower complaint following his reassignment alleging that his early warnings about the virus were met with indifference at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and that his efforts to push back on the use of a coronavirus treatment touted by Trump, hydroxychloroquine, contributed to his removal from the high-level post.

Bright is seeking to be reinstated in his former position and asked for a full investigation into the decision to reassign him.

Bright, who first came forward with his claims in late April, is slated to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health at 10 a.m. Thursday morning.

Trump has repeatedly said he didn’t know Bright, while dismissing him as a seemingly “disgruntled employee.”

“I don’t know who he is. I did not hear good things about him at all,” Trump told reporters at the White House on May 6. “And to me he seems like a disgruntled employee that’s trying to help the Democrats win an election.”

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