President Donald Trump on Wednesday declared House Democrats’ $3 trillion House coronavirus bill “dead on arrival,” arguing it was packed with unrelated priorities.

“It’s, as they say, D.O.A. Dead on arrival,” Trump said during a meeting with the governors of Colorado and North Dakota.

“Of course Nancy Pelosi knows that,” he added.

The president complained that the legislation was essentially a “voting package” that would expand access to mail-in ballots. Read Full Story

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President Donald Trump said he will allow Dr. Anthony Fauci to testify to the GOP-led Senate, but not the House because the Democrats are in control.

He was asked about it Tuesday morning after Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was blocked from testifying before the committee which the House created to conduct oversight of the administration’s coronavirus response to the outbreak. Read Full Story

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The White House has ordered intelligence officials to look into whether the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Chinese government withheld information about the coronavirus pandemic earlier this year, according to a report by NBC News.

The directive was sent to the National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and the CIA, according to NBC. President Donald Trump appeared to reference the directive on Monday during a White House briefing.

“We’re doing very serious investigations,” Trump said. “We are not happy with that whole situation, because we believe it could have been stopped at the source, it could have been stopped quickly, and it wouldn’t have spread all over the world.” Read Full Story

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