Amidst the worsening COVID-19 outbreak, Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs is calling for the federal coronavirus task force to be disbanded.

In a statement issued on July 2, Biggs, a Republican who represents the state's 5th Congressional District and a staunch ally of President Trump, celebrated new employment numbers released by the U.S. Department of Labor showing that the economy added 4.8 million jobs in June and that the unemployment rate fell to 11.1 from a reported 13 percent in May. Bigg's praised Trump's handling of the economy and derided federal public health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House's COVID-19 response coordinator, for allegedly undermining Trump's messaging on reviving the economy.

He also called for the federal COVID-19 task force to be "disbanded" so that Trump's "message is not mitigated or distorted."

“After two months of economic nightmares due to COVID-19 and our states’ reactions to the outbreak, the American economy is roaring back as we predicted," Biggs said. "The fundamentals of our economy were very strong prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, and the pro-growth foundation that President Trump set over the past 3+ years is paying dividends in one of our nation’s most-uncertain times."