White House Directs West Wing Staffers To Wear Masks
President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence had previously largely declined to wear masks at White House events, although key staffers have become sick.
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President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence had previously largely declined to wear masks at White House events, although key staffers have become sick.
The administration's work on testing and bolstering the national stockpile will continue, Vice President Mike Pence said, with some of that work being moved back to agencies.
The mayor held up an issue of the New York Post, in which the president said bailing out Democratic states, like New York, would be unfair to Republicans.
Tunnel to Towers raised money and delivered more than 1 million face masks, gowns and other personal protective equipment to health care workers and first responders.
New Jersey has been especially hard-hit by the coronavirus. The sate has had more than 7,000 deaths.
Supplies are overflowing -- there's no shortage of pigs and cattle -- but the work force is suffering the consequences of the coronavirus.
CBS News has obtained the White House's new guidance given to states on how to test and trace for the coronavirus.
The idea was tossed out by the president during Thursday's White House briefing in a discussion on ways to kill the virus.
The governor called Tuesday's meeting with President Donald Trump "a productive visit."
The governor contends the federal government must help get crucial supplies needed for testing.
The Comfort came to New York with 1,000 beds available to treat non-COVID trauma patients only, but there weren't that many of them.
President Trump announced during Monday's Coronavirus Task Force briefing that he will meet with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Washington on Tuesday.
President Trump tweeted late Monday that amid the coronavirus pandemic, he will be signing an executive order that will temporarily halt immigration.
Among the recently reported dead was NJ Transit Senior Vice President and General Manager Ray Kenny, who lead the rail operations for NJ Transit, and Sierra Leone Ambassador Foday Mansaray, a representative of the International Human Rights Commission.
The governor said again on Saturday that to make real progress, we need more testing and help from the federal government to get it done.
President Trump's guidelines on reopening the country leaves much up to governors, states and businesses.
President Trump insists he has total authority in the decision but is authorizing the states to reopen their economies individually, CBS News reports.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is standing by his regional approach to reopen the economy as the coronavirus pandemic enters its next phase.
President Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. will be withholding funding for the World Health Organization, pending a review.
When asked on Monday about his power relative to that of governors, President Trump claimed he has "total" authority because he's president.
Real estate developer Stanley Chera, a friend and donor of President Donald Trump, has died of coronavirus.
De Blasio said he surfaced the issue with President Donald Trump and other members of his administration Thursday.
The supplies will directly help people in New York and New Jersey.
New models released by the White House on Tuesday show that 100,000 to 240,000 people could die in the U.S. from coronavirus, even with most Americans staying home.
"What they still don't get is how to run a government, how to plan an operation. This virus has been ahead of us from day one," Cuomo said.
