White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
Mark Randall MeadowsMnuchin, Meadows makes a rare weekend trip to Capitol Hill as the Republican Party prepares the White House coronavirus package, Congress talks about the upcoming coronavirus relief bill as COVID-19 continues to increase Mnuchin puts jumpy hawks nervous about relief law talks MORE He said Sunday that the administration is “hopeful” that it will be able to announce new therapies to treat the coronavirus “in the coming days.”
Meadows told ABC’s “This Week” that the White House has been “working 24 hours,” with a focus on COVID-19 therapies, vaccines, and mitigation therapies.
“The president has been very clear: any amount of money and any amount of time that must be invested, we are doing it,” said the White House chief of staff.
“We are hopeful that with some of the innovative therapeutics technologies we will be able to announce some new therapies in the coming days,” he added.
In mitigating COVID-19 in the US, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows tells @gstephanopoulos: “We hope that with some of the innovative technologies in therapeutics we can announce some new therapies in the coming days. ” “https://t.co/qxICVVlxra pic.twitter.com/hvVUDl3Lj0
– This week (@ThisWeekABC) July 26, 2020
The former North Carolina representative defended the actions of the White House during the pandemic after the host George Stephanopoulos
George Robert Stephanopoulos Mary Trump’s book sells 950,000 copies in pre-order alone. The 12:30 up the hill report. He asked if he could have done more to control the outbreak.
In fact, we take unprecedented steps. The president not only closed travel from China and Europe long before medical experts suggested we should, and then closed the economy to try to mitigate the damage, “Meadows said.
“We are not going to have a solution for this,” he said. “They are not masks. It is not shutting down the economy. Hopefully, it is American ingenuity that will allow therapies and vaccines to finally conquer this. “
Pressed by @gstephanopoulos on whether the WH could have done more to control COVID-19, WH Chief of Staff Mark Meadows says “We took unprecedented steps … I hope it is Ameican’s ingenuity that allows therapies and vaccines finally conquer this. “https://t.co/qxICVVlxra pic.twitter.com/vvbF5zgOhH
– This week (@ThisWeekABC) July 26, 2020
Meadows comments come later President Trump
Donald John Trump Seattle police declare riots amid ongoing protests. Brazilian Bolsonaro says he tested positive for coronavirus. The Reagan Foundation asks the Trump campaign, RNC, to stop using the former president’s name to raise money. PLUS acknowledged last week that the virus “Get worse before improving” A change in tone after the president had downplayed the spike in the case in states like Florida and Texas.
Last week, the United States topped 4 million COVID-19 infections, reaching more than 4.1 million cases and at least 146,484 deaths on Sunday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The administration made its biggest investment in “Operation Warp Speed,” the vaccine development effort, last week by channeling nearly $ 2 billion to Pfizer and a small German biotech company.
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