March 6, 2020 Trump to sign $8.3B coronavirus funding bill Friday, Pence says President Trump on Friday will sign newly approved legislation allocating more than $8 billion in emergency funding to combat the spread of coronavirus.
March 4, 2020 Pence promises coronavirus testing will be covered by private insurance, Medicare Vice President Mike Pence tried to assuage Americans’ concerns over the potential cost they could face getting a coronavirus test should they become affected by the outbreak, saying that the test will be covered by all private insurance plans and by Medicare and Medicaid.
March 4, 2020 Pence says passengers on flights from Italy and South Korea will be screened 'multiple times' for coronavirus Vice President Mike Pence announced Wednesday that all passengers on flights from Italy and South Korea are being screened “multiple times” for any signs of the coronavirus before they board their flights to the U.S.
March 4, 2020 HHS Secretary Alex Azar encouraged by proposed coronavirus vaccine timeline U.S. Health and Human Service (HHS) Sec. Alex Azar said Wednesday that he is encouraged by the proposed timeline for a coronavirus vaccine.
March 2, 2020 43 cases of coronavirus, 6 deaths in the US but risk to Americans 'remains low,' Pence says at WH briefing Vice President Pence confirmed that there are 43 cases of coronavirus in the U.S. but said the risk "remains low" for the American people.
March 1, 2020 Steve Bannon defends Sen. Tom Cotton's controversial coronavirus origin claim Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon defended Sen. Tom Cotton's earlier suggestion that the deadly coronavirus may have originated in a high-security biochemical lab in Wuhan, China, telling "Sunday Morning Futures" that more information must be gathered from China before an origin can be conclusively determined.
February 29, 2020 Joe Concha: Mainstream media's blame game with Trump hurting important coronavirus reporting The media's willingness to blame President Trump -- in addition to recent blatant criticism from Democratic lawmakers -- is negatively affecting important aspects of reporting on the deadly coronavirus, The Hill's media reporter Joe Concha said Saturday.
February 28, 2020 Jim Daly: Left’s outrage on Pence leading coronavirus response is latest example of religious intolerance Religious intolerance comes in many forms and manifests in degrees large and small, but the left’s response to President Trump’s appointment of Vice President Mike Pence to lead the nation’s handling of the coronavirus is the latest serving of demagoguery against people of faith.
February 28, 2020 Ted Cruz, AOC get into spat after she claims Pence 'literally doesn't believe in science' Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., got into a public spat about scientific knowledge after the latters blasted the choice to put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the coronavirus response.
February 28, 2020 Lieberman & Ridge: On coronavirus, Trump was right to put Pence in charge of response We hope the president ultimately puts the vice president in charge of the entire biodefense enterprise to ensure that the government is working optimally to defend against naturally occurring diseases like novel coronavirus, accidents, biological terrorism and the threat of biological warfare from other nation-states.