Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson told Newsmax Thursday that mandating cognitive fitness tests for older government officials, such as former President Joe Biden, is “not partisan” but “something that affects all of us.”
“It’s foolish of us not to be monitoring that on a regular basis,” Carson said on “Wake Up America.” “When a person turns 70 or 75 years old, they should have mental status tests done every year if they’re in an important position. And that’s nothing against them. It’s a fact that we see happening in people who age, very frequently. Some don’t happen, but we should have a mechanism in place to detect that and to keep everybody from suffering as a result of it.”
The retired neurosurgeon said “there’s no question” that “ironclad” procedures need to be put in place that “take care of the health of … the people who are making important decisions in our government,” while also being “transparent.”
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