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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi <\/a>and other Democrats have frequently accused President Trump of not taking the coronavirus pandemic seriously enough —\u00a0particularly when it first it the U.S. —\u00a0but when confronted with her own comments that appeared to take COVID-19 lightly, Pelosi insisted that she did not downplay it at all.<\/p>\n

On CNN<\/a>‘s “State of the Union” Sunday,\u00a0host Dana Bash recalled that on Feb. 29, Pelosi said that “there are no indications of widespread infections in the United States,” but the House speaker\u00a0insisted that she did not underestimate the crisis.<\/p>\n

“No, what we did was at that exact time was writing the first COVID bill, which we brought to the floor and passed on March 4, and it was about testing, testing, testing,” she said. “Because if you don\u2019t test you don\u2019t have a handle on what the problem is.”<\/p>\n

When asked whether she had any regrets over her initial response to COVID-19, Pelosi firmly said she had none, then took the opportunity to accuse Trump of giving the wrong messages.<\/p>\n

“No, not at all. We had had four bills, all bipartisan, but they have not been implemented by the administration,” she said. “And no, we said testing from March 4. We were writing the bill to find out what the threat was to us while the president was saying delay, denial, calling it a hoax, and causing deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has criticized Pelosi as well, noting that in late February she encouraged people to go out in public in San Francisco’s Chinatown.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s exciting to be here, especially at this time, to be able to be unified with our community,\u201d Pelosi told reporters. \u201cWe want to be vigilant about what is out there in other places. We want to be careful about how we deal with it, but we do want to say to people \u2018Come to Chinatown, here we are \u2014 we’re, again, careful, safe \u2014 and come join us.’\u201d<\/p>\n

That happened\u00a0the same day that the\u00a0White House\u00a0submitted\u00a0a request to Congress<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0$2.5\u00a0billion in\u00a0supplemental spending to help combat the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats have frequently accused President Trump of not taking the coronavirus pandemic seriously enough —\u00a0particularly when it first it the U.S. —\u00a0but when confronted with her own comments that appeared to take COVID-19 lightly, Pelosi insisted that she did not downplay it at all.On CNN’s “State of the Union”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[345,4515],"class_list":{"0":"post-56410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-pelosi","9":"tag-regrets"},"yoast_head":"\n