Rep. Tenney: Biden deserves 'less than zero' grade on handling COVID, responsible for 'devastated' economy

Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., discusses a record number of northern border encounters on 'Fox News Live.'

Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., sharply criticized President Biden and his handling of the COVID pandemic Tuesday, saying during an interview with Fox News Digital that she would grade his leadership over the last three years as "less than zero."

The Biden administration’s "one-size-fits-all" approach to lockdowns and vaccine mandates ruined peoples’ livelihoods, devastated the economy and did incalculable damage to constituents in her 24th Congressional District and others around the country, she said.  

"It's about time," Tenney told Fox News Digital when asked about Biden formally ending the COVID national emergency, which he signed earlier this week. It had been in effect since March 2020. "I have been calling for the end of the pandemic."

"We focused on everybody with a one-sized fits all solution, which never works," the New Yorker told Fox News Digital. "Instead of having a smart policy. We shut everybody down. We put our economy in peril. We hurt our communities, we lost livelihoods. They don't want to follow the science."

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Representative Claudia Tenney, a Republican from New York, scolded President Biden over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. (Ken Cedeno/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Tenney added: "Joe Biden announced last year that the pandemic is over, so why continue with the mandates on vaccines? Why continue to put employers through difficult times and not be able to get people back to work? Students not being able to go to school or to enroll in classes?"

When asked whether the Biden