SOMEONE WHO REALLY DOESN’T WANT A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN? FAUCI 

Anthony Fauci says the “the worst time” for a government shutdown is in the middle of a pandemic, a warning that comes as Congress is barreling toward a financial impasse that could close down the government.

“I think it’s so obvious to anybody who’s looking at the situation,” the nation’s leading infectious diseases expert said in an interview with The Washington Post’s The Early 202. “The worst time in the world we want to shut down the government is in the middle of a pandemic where we have 140,000 people a day getting infected and 2,000 people a day dying. That’s the time when you want the government working full blast to address this.”

Fauci said that a shutdown would have a “profound effect,” adding it “should be avoided, if at all possible.”

The comments come as the U.S. grapples with the surge in coronavirus infections fueled by the rapidly spreading delta variant — and as lawmakers face the looming prospect of a government shutdown.

Earlier this week, the COVID-19 pandemic became the deadliest to hit the U.S., surpassing the 1918 flu pandemic.