Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres is calling for an investigation into the federal government’s response to monkeypox, which he calls a “failure” and an “embarrassment.”

“Monkeypox is a highly containable virus, yet the federal government failed to contain it because the public health bureaucracy is incapable of rapid response, the kind of rapid response that a public health emergency requires,” Torres told Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Tuesday. “And the worst offender by far is the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA. More than a million doses of Jyennos vaccines were left to languish in freezers in a pharmaceutical plant in Denmark.”

“We cannot allow the insanity to continue,” Torres added. “There must be an investigation into how and why our public health bureaucracy is so broken.”

Torres also spoke about the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act in the House, his views on the Jan. 6 hearings, why he believes former President Donald Trump committed federal crimes trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, and his views on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.