The Oil Truth Lies Somewhere

Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy challenged Press Secretary Jen Psaki during Monday’s briefing, asking whether the administration was going to blame Russian President Vladimir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine for high oil prices — despite the fact that they were rising long before Russian occupation forces entered Ukraine.
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Former head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Francis Collins, appointed as President Biden’s new science adviser on February 17, has consistently maintained that he plays a nonpartisan role in the federal government. Collins told NPR, for example, that he and his former employee, Anthony Fauci, are “not political figures,” and expressed frustration over criticism directed toward them as being driven by “a very strong political overtone.” Their COVID policy recommendations, he insists by contrast, have been based solely on scientific data.