GOP challenges Randi Weingarten on COVID-19 school closures and CDC access.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, will testify before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic to address her union's role in influencing public policy on school lockdowns. Weingarten will call on lawmakers to "think bigger than the faulty premise of this inquiry," which is the claim that AFT inappropriately coordinated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2021 to make last-minute changes to school reopening guidance. Weingarten and teachers unions as a whole have been targeted by critics for having had a hand in keeping schools closed throughout the pandemic.