On Monday, President Trump instructed states to 'maximize the use of all available testing platforms and venues' as they begin to plan their reemergence from coronavirus lockdown. On Wednesday, he downplayed the edict.
On Monday, President Donald Trump instructed states to"maximize the use of all available testing platforms and venues" as they begin to plan their reemergence from coronavirus lockdown.
On Wednesday, he downplayed the edict and mused that maybe blanket testing wasn't necessary as states move to reopen."You'll see some astonishing numbers -- I don't know that all of that's even necessary," Trump said of nationwide testing efforts during an event at the White House."You have some governors that love the tests, you have others that like doing it a different way, an old-fashioned way, with some testing.
Kushner: The federal stockpile is ours, not the states' 02:27Kushner in particular has said the public-private sector mobilization on supplies that he helped spearhead hasn't gotten enough credit, nor have the efforts to ramp up ventilator production. Despite rarely appearing on television, Kushner has sat down with Fox News twice this week to tout the White House's efforts.
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