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Birx says the most important thing is distancing and hand-washing; don't have an "artificial sense" of security because you're wearing a mask. "Remember, your eyes are not in the mask...if you're touching things and touching your eyes..." — PolitiTweet.org

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Pence announces that they will "find a way" to pay for the coronavirus treatment of uninsured people. He says an announcement is coming tomorrow. — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked if he's considering a wear-mask recommendation, Trump says "I think they're going to be coming out with regulations on that." (They'll almost certainly be recommendations, not regulations.) He says any directive won't be "mandatory." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump asks: Who ever heard of a governor calling up the federal government and saying "sir," we need a hospital? (The federal government has deployed hospitals to states after multiple natural disasters.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump asked what happens when states are competing against each other for these items: "They have that, and they have to work that out." He blames states for not ordering critical supplies before. "When times become normalized," they need to stock up, he says. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says of the federal role in crisis acquisitions: "We're a backup, we're not an ordering clerk." (A number of governors have called on him to take a leading role to avoid state-vs.-state competition.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says in a little while ventilators will be worth $5, but right now they're very valuable. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says there was an order of ventilators and other important materials going to Italy and Spain, and Trump could've stopped them from being shipped, but he said, "You can't do that, you've gotta let it go." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Phil_Mattingly: President Trump has sent a letter to Sen. Schumer: https://t.co/uIo8bUcdj0 — PolitiTweet.org

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(Trade/econ adviser and Defense Production Act policy coordinator Peter Navarro has been talking; I've missed a bunch of it so will not tweet for a bit) — PolitiTweet.org

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Kushner said Trump called NYC Mayor de Blasio today, after a Kushner call with NYC officials about their hospital supply concerns, and informed him the government will be sending a month's supply of N95 masks to NYC. — PolitiTweet.org

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Jared Kushner: "By bringing innovative solutions to these hard problems, we will make progress." "The president's been very very hands-on in this," and he has instructed us to "leave no stone unturned." — PolitiTweet.org

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Kushner: Trump wanted to make sure we had the best people doing the best job. He instructed me to "break down every barrier needed" to get everything done "in the speed the president demands," and to "think outside the box." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump left the briefing; he said he has a meeting but will come back. Adviser/son-in-law Jared Kushner is speaking now. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump said twice that he invoked the Defense Production Act "against" 3M for the manufacture of face masks. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on his second test: "I took it, it took me literally a minute to take it," then it took 14 or so minutes for a result. He says he went to work, he didn't just sit and wait, and the result then said, "The president tested negative for COVID-19." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is again noting that members of the pandemic task force sleep very little or sometimes not at all. — PolitiTweet.org

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Moments after saying "this is not the time for politics," Trump denounces "witch hunts" and says the perpetrators are only improving his poll numbers. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "This is not the time for politics. Endless partisan investigations - here we go again" - have damaged the US; "witch hunt after witch hunt after witch hunt...and the people doing the witch hunts have been losing." (Pelosi announced a special committee on the response) — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on New York: "It's definitely a hotspot, but we have other hotspots also...we're taking care of them very strongly, very powerfully." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says 100,000 ventilators are being built now or "soon to be started." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump, reading, says COVID-19, then adds, "You know what that is? Right. Become a very famous term. C-O-V-I-D. COVID." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kaitlancollins: Amid concerns that Americans who have no direct deposit information on file w/ IRS would have to wait on paper checks,… — PolitiTweet.org

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Oh true yes https://t.co/pohizGFpfv — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Yamiche: Mnuchin on relief checks to Americans: For people who don't have direct deposits, we are working on a quick system to get chec… — PolitiTweet.org

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Down from the previous estimate of three weeks: https://t.co/fVgwmTwph4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Mnuchin: Not saying everyone will get their loan tomorrow, but the system will be up and running. — PolitiTweet.org

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Mnuchin says he encourages all companies to go to the Treasury or SBA website to look into these loans. He says they've committed that the program will be available tomorrow. (Banks have said that there are unresolved issues: https://t.co/M1cuyEH8Sa) — PolitiTweet.org

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Small Business Administration chief Jovita Carranza are touting the $349B Paycheck Protection Act. Mnuchin urges businesses with fewer than 500 employees to contact lenders for these loans, and "please bring your workers back to work." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @weijia: JUST IN: The President tested negative again for #COVID19: https://t.co/EsMSELVJwK — PolitiTweet.org