On Monday's broadcast of NewsNation's "On Balance," Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) stated that there was a pre-planning of the COVID response involving "the censoring of information, the dedication to rolling out an mRNA vaccine..., and then sabotaging early treatments so that there wouldn't be a treatment, paving the way for emergency use authorization for the vaccine." And that, while most of the failure the of response took place under President Joe Biden, 2024 GOP presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is responsible for what happened under his administration, and "He should not have kept Anthony Fauci in that position."