West Wing Reads Trump Says Coronavirus Response is Working, Taps Pence to Lead Fight

Trump Says Coronavirus Response is Working, Taps Pence to Lead Fight “President Trump told Americans not to panic over the coronavirus Wednesday, saying he’s taken the reins, U.S. patients are recovering, and his decision to defy critics and restrict travel from China is working,” Tom Howell Jr. reports for The Washington Times. “It turned out to be a very good thing,” the President said. “Because of all we’ve done the risk to the American people remains very low.” Click here to read more. Learn more: Immediate risk is low, but it’s important to stay prepared. “Addressing more than 100,000 people in a packed Ahmedabad stadium [in India this week], Trump offered a bright vision of future friendship between the world's most powerful and its most populous democracies. As the BBC observed, ‘It was a good speech,’” the Washington Examiner editorial board writes. “A federal appeals court on Wednesday handed a major win to the Trump administration in its fight against ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions, ruling that it can deny grant money to states that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities,” Adam Shaw and Bill Mears report for Fox News. “Under President Trump, the United States led the world in reducing carbon-dioxide emissions in 2019.” But independent data showing that U.S. emissions dropped by 2.9 percent last year “failed to make an impression with Democrats, environmentalists and climate activists, who either shrugged off the data or argued that Mr. Trump’s climate-denialism was somehow thwarted,” Valerie Richardson writes in The Washington Times.