The White House Correspondents’ Associations reportedly voted Sunday night to reduce the number of reporters in the briefing room to just 14 because of the Omicron surge hitting D.C. and other parts of the U.S. right now:
Just now @whca announces that, after an emergency board meeting, they unanimously voted to “temporarily” reduce the White House briefing room to just 14 seats in response to omicron.
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) January 3, 2022
Here’s the new seating chart that will be in effect “through the Omicron wave”:
“THROUGH THE OMICRON VARIANT WAVE” pic.twitter.com/4KPasE2gLT
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) January 3, 2022
That’s the “fully-vaccinated and boosted” media, mind you:
media doesn't wanna go to work, sad! https://t.co/e76xY67q7d
— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) January 3, 2022
And, boy, it sure is convenient that the administration is getting less scrutiny in what’s about to be the worst month of the pandemic by far:
How convenient. This is one way to make sure pesky reporters from non-major news outlets don't ask annoying questions. https://t.co/OrYOinZomC
— John Fund (@johnfund) January 3, 2022
They should also vote to make Jen Psaki wear a mask just like teachers and kids are forced to:
they should vote to make @PressSec give the briefing wearing an N95 mask https://t.co/TktebwtcGv
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) January 3, 2022
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