Pres. Trump threatens to adjourn both chambers of Congress so he can make appointments to fill vacant positions and judicial slots. “If they don’t act on getting these people approved,” Trump says, he will have to do something 'that I prefer not doing.”
Here are the latest developments in the government response:
“These encouraging developments have put us in a very strong position to finalize guidelines on for states on reopening the country, which will be announcing, we are going to be talking about that tomorrow." Trump said he had several phone calls with industry leaders and members of his newly formed “opening of the country council” on Wednesday who must have reiterated to the president what public health experts and governors have been warning him for weeks: that there need to be widespread testing in place for a successful and safe reopening.
President Donald Trump listens as Vice President Mike Pence speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, April 15, 2020, in Washington. Pence also encouraged Americans who have recovered from COVID-19 to contact their local blood or plasma donors, since people who have recovered have antibodies in their bloodstream that can attack the coronavirus.
Response coordinator for White House Coronavirus Task Force Deborah Birx speaks as President Donald Trump listens during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 15, 2020, in Washington."So, over the last five to six days, we've seen declines in cases across the country, and this has been very reassuring for us. At the same time, we know that mortality and the fatalities that we’re facing across the United States continue.
"I don't know too much about it but I understand my name is there, I don't know where they are going, how they are going, I understand it's not delaying anything and I'm satisfied with that," Trump said. “I would rather not use that power, but we have way over 100 people that we very badly need in this administration that should have been approved a long time ago," Trump said, adding a message to opponents.
"The CDC and WHO has had a long history of working together in multiple outbreaks throughout the world as we continue to do in this one. And so we've had a very productive public health relationship. We continue to have that," Redfeild said when asked by ABC News' Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos if the leading international health organization failed and whether it was wise to suspend funding.
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