“We’re going to do whatever it takes to get the American people through this pandemic,” VP Mike Pence says about coronavirus relief efforts.
Trump extended the celebration with a lengthy, wide-ranging speech in the Rose Garden later Friday morning."He's always attributing everything to me, but I'll attribute this statement to him," Trump said of Pence. "He said, 'It's not going to stop,' because the numbers that you're looking at don't include all of those states that are closed."
Despite the administration's optimistic tone, its insistence on pursuing further aid indicates that there are lingering concerns about the economy even after May's gains. Pence said a payroll tax cut remains a necessity for sustaining an economic recovery and added that "we're always mindful of inflation" in an era where the federal government has spent trillions of dollars as part of its efforts to blunt the impact of the virus.
More than 108,000 people in the U.S. have died from Covid-19 and more than 1.87 million cases have been counted,
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