Biden Takes a Veiled Swipe at Trump By Declaring ‘Science is Back’ in Remarks to CDC

President Joe Biden took a thinly veiled shot at Donald Trump by declaring that “science is back” during his remarks at the CDC headquarters on Friday.

“We can build all the walls we want, we can have the most powerful country in the world, but we cannot stop, we cannot stop these viruses,” Biden said to CDC employees while at the company’s headquarters. “Other than be aware where they are and move quickly on them when we find them.”

The president later praised the CDC for the work they have done throughout the pandemic, thanking them for leading the global response.

Despite all the compliments, Biden had some jabs in store for his predecessor.

“Science is back. All kidding aside, think about it. For the longest time, not just as it relates to the CDC, but science, science was viewed as sort of an appendage to anything else we were talking about, but it’s back” Biden said.

The president continued to highlight that his whole team, Vice President Kamala Harris included, is committed to following science and facts.

“The American people have moved,” he added. “This is a bipartisan effort now. It isn’t showing itself in the way senators and congressman vote, but the public, the public.”

“The public in a bipartisan way, when I came up with this $1.9 billion for this whole Covid and the economic relief side of it as well, we were told that it could never pass, we would never get any help,” said Biden, adding, “The point is the public is thankful to you, because it’s about science. That’s what they understand. They understand. And we’re not going back to the old days, even if tomorrow the whole administration changed, I think, you’ve changed things. You’ve changed them in a way that is going to make everybody healthier in this country, and when we have a crisis, you’re prepared to meet it because you speak truth and science to power. And that is the power.”

Watch above, via MSNBC.

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