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Officials say 4m tests will be made available each week but decline to estimate how many Americans have been tested thus far Warning that the number of coronavirus cases in the United States was expected to grow, the Trump administration on Monday said that testing for the virus would ramp up quickly in the coming […] More
Austin, Indiana, was the site of a 2015 outbreak that infected more than 200 people – and critics of Pence’s coronavirus role say he botched the response Dozens of residents filtered past a syringe disposal box in a parking lot as they headed to the free weekly meal at the Church of the New Covenant […] More
Both Donald Trump and Mike Pence were at the conservative conference but did not have contact with attendee, organization says Live: coronavirus latest Donald Trump has said he isn’t concerned at all about the coronavirus getting closer to the White House after it was revealed that an attendee at grassroots conservative conference CPAC had tested […] More
Putting Mike Pence in charge is proof that the White House wants to protect its political line, not protect Americans To effectively contain an outbreak, government decisions must be based on saving lives, not scoring political points. Last week, the White House announced that the vice-president, Mike Pence, will lead the coronavirus task force. The […] More
Vice-President is leading White House taskforce on outbreak Republicans are only ‘pushing back’, Pence claims Robert Reich: Trump’s cuts have made the danger far worse When Donald Trump Jr said Democrats hope coronavirus “kills millions of people” in the US because they want to bring his father down, he was merely “pushing back” at politicisation […] More
The Texas senator tried to pick a fight after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out Mike Pence’s coronavirus credentials If you were in search of a scientifically minded, steadying presence to guide the country through the potential fallout of the coronavirus, you could not do much worse than Vice-President Mike Pence. This being the Donald Trump administration, […] More
The Vermont senator saw a landslide victory in Nevada while the vice-president faces criticism for leading the US coronavirus response Bernie Sanders steamrollered through the Nevada primary and Donald Trump played down the coronavirus threat. Who’s up and who’s down this week in US politics? Continue reading… More
At the annual CPAC conference in Maryland, Republicans were in buoyant mood about the president’s re-election prospects “Four more years!” the crowd chanted at Mike Pence, the vice-president. “Four more years!” Not so long ago, under the shadow of investigations, impeachment and dismal approval ratings, Donald Trump’s re-election seemed a long shot. But at the […] More
