Bobby Rush’s coronavirus TRACE Act is a shocking threat to personal freedom

Published May 11, 2020 2:05pm ET



If you’re not already horrified by the things liberals in Washington are saying about getting through the coronavirus pandemic, look at the bill filed in early May by Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois.

The bill is titled “H.R. 6666 — COVID-19 Testing, Reaching, And Contacting Everyone,” or the TRACE Act. It aims to provide $100 billion in funding for the Health and Human Service Department for the purpose of “diagnostic testing for COVID–19, to trace and monitor the contacts of infected individuals, and to support the quarantine of such contacts …”

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