Democratic senator demands information on distribution of hydroxychloroquine drug Trump touted
A U.S. military service member who works at the White House campus and serves as a valet to the president has tested positive for coronavirus, but President Donald Trump has since tested negative, a White House official said.
MORE: Government coronavirus response updates: 'No idea' that 'respected' White House task force so 'popular,' Trump says, explaining reversal It is unclear from sources when this individual last had contact with Trump but was part of a regular rotation working around the president. Asked if he's spooked by the positive test, the president conceded that"yeah it's a little bit strange" before he returned to comparing the American people to"warriors together" amid the virus.
"The governor's working along with us, and [our] relationship with Texas has been phenomenal," Trump said."Texas is opening up and a lot of places are opening up, and we want to do it. And I'm not sure that we even have a choice. I think we have to do it. You know, we -- this country can't stay closed and locked down for years."
"These are governors that have done a good job in, I think, all cases. I have some that I don't think are doing a particularly good job," Trump said."They have to do what they're doing like Governor Abbott. When you look at the job he's done in Texas, I rely on his judgment.
Abbott's meeting with the president also comes on the same day the governor announced that he will eliminate jail time for violations to his own stay-at-home order, retroactive to April 2, the day his order took effect.I am eliminating jail for violating an order, retroactive to April 2, superseding local orders.— Greg Abbott May 7, 2020 Abbott called for the release of a Dallas salon owner earlier Thursday who was jailed for repeatedly defying his executive order to shut down her business.
Moments before the meeting, the White House tweeted a list of personal protective equipment it has provided to Texas.Hundreds of millions of PPE items have been sent to Texas to bolster their frontline Coronavirus response! pic.twitter.com/Tq05FI0zHG "I think that the way this has been handled is most unfortunate, because first of all, they had guidelines, which were weak, but nonetheless guidelines, and then the president said you don't even have to honor them. And then we find out now that there was a CDC report that had much more comprehensive guidelines, and they buried it in the White House," Pelosi said.
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