Vice President Mike Pence said the White House’s coronavirus task force will wind down its work around Memorial Day.
Vice President Mike Pence, President Trump and Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House's coronavirus task force, speak during a briefing last month.Vice President Mike Pence, President Trump and Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House's coronavirus task force, speak during a briefing last month.The White House's coronavirus task force will wind down its work around Memorial Day, Vice President Mike Pence told reporters on Tuesday.
President Trump told reporters at an event in Phoenix Tuesday that the task force had done an"incredible job" boosting testing and ventilator production and now there is a shift in focus."We're now looking at a little bit of a different form," he said, answering questions about why he was winding down the task force.
Trump said some doctors, whom he did not name, had suggested keeping the economy closed for longer."We can't keep our country closed for the next five years," he said.
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