Jen Psaki Tries Joke To Try To Shut Down Fox News Reporter

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White House press secretary Jen Psaki  tried to lighten the mood when grilled by a reporter Wednesday over President Joe Biden's broken promise to tackle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, reports The Daily Mail.

'We're working on it, Peter,' a smiling Psaki told Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy after he asked what became of Biden's plan to 'shut down' the virus.

'We're all sick and tired of this virus, but we need approximately 20 percent of the population - or more people than are currently vaccinated - to go get vaccinated and go get boosted,' she said. 

What we can do as the federal government is make those vaccines free and make the boosters free, make them available, but we need the American people to do more who are not vaccinated to help us continue to fight the virus.'

More than 780,000 Americans have died of the COVID-19 virus since it took hold in early 2020.

Psaki also tore into former President Donald Trump for not disclosing he had reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 before debating Biden last year.

She extended that criticism to Trump's allies in Congress, with conservative Republicans now threatening to shut down the government Friday night if the Democrats include funding for Biden's vaccine mandates in a stop-gap bill.  

Psaki said those Republicans wanted the unvaccinated to be free to 'infect their co-workers, our children, filling hospitals.'