'It isn't just that testing has gone up it's that the virus has spread,' the interviewer pointed out. The number of weekly tests reported nationwide has increased to more than five million in early July from about one million in early April, according to data collected by the Covid Tracking Project. Testing in the United States has increased by 37 per cent, but the number of confirmed cases has increased by 194 per cent. 'I've been right probably more than anyone else,' he said. 'It's going to disappear, and I'll be right,' the president told Fox News on Sunday, when asked about his June prediction that it would ' just disappear'. Cases this week were increasing in 41 states, and the CDC expects half the country - 24 states - to see a surge in deaths in the next four weeks. On Saturday, more than 61,000 coronavirus cases were announced, according to a New York Times database. The United States is still deeply mired in the fight against COVID-19. They have strongly opposed the Democrat suggestion, and need to come up with their own alternative. The White House's demands are putting the Republicans in a difficult position. The officials also wanted slash to zero the funding allocated for the nation’s top health agencies, and to cut the Pentagon funding to $5 billion, according to another person familiar with the discussions. They had also proposed providing $5.5 billion to the State Department and $20 billion to the Pentagon to help counter the virus and potentially distribute a vaccine at home and abroad.īut in talks over the weekend, administration officials instead wanted to reduce to zero the funding for testing and tracing, with White House officials insisting that they have already approved billions of dollars in assistance for testing and that some of that money remains unspent. Senate Republicans intended to allocate $25 billion in grants to states for conducting testing and contact tracing, as well as about $10 billion for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and about $15 billion for the National Institutes of Health. Yet sources told The Washington Post that the talks had stalled. A $3 trillion plan approved by the Democrat-controlled House in May was declared 'dead on arrival' in the Republican-held Senate.

Mr McConnell is preparing to unveil his plan this coming week, as part of negotiations with Democrats on what will likely be the last major coronavirus relief bill before the November election. Republicans were in talks with the president's team over the weekend to finalise a $75.5 billion (£60bn) plan by Mitch McConnell, the Senate leader, to fight the virus. His remarks came amid reports that Donald Trump is trying to block billions of dollars in spending on coronavirus testing and contact tracing, and on efforts to combat the pandemic. And if we don't come together as a nation with national leadership, we will see more people die.' Let people know that this is a marathon, that we have to kind of push through every single mile. 'Stop telling people this will be over soon. 'We know this will be a marathon,' he continued. And I think when leaders say that, people react.

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