Vice President Pence’s trip to Iowa shows how the Trump administration’s aims to move past coronavirus are sometimes complicated by the virus itself.
WASHINGTON – Vice President Mike Pence was hoping to use a trip to Iowa on Friday to promote efforts to reopen the economy and demonstrate that life is returning to normal across the country amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic.A member of Pence’s staff, press secretary Katie Miller, tested positive for coronavirus just as the vice president was about to depart, delaying his plane for an hour.
"By God's grace, the faith of the American people... we'll get through this, sooner rather than later,” Pence said. “We'll get America working again. We'll get America worshipping again."The White House's efforts to project a sense of normalcy in order to persuade Americans to move past coronavirus have often been complicated by the virus itself.
The size of stimulus: 4 coronavirus stimulus packages. $2.4 trillion in funding. See what that means to the national debt. Regardless, Trump said he has been tested twice in recent days and that both tests came back negative. Multiple media reports identified the staffer who tested positive for coronavirus as Miller, Pence's press secretary and the wife of Stephen Miller, a Trump senior adviser known for his hard-line stance on immigration. NBC News reported that Katie Miller confirmed she received the positive diagnosis.
The person declined to breakdown the number of infections between civilian staffers and agents, and did not specify where the employees are assigned. The Secret Service has 7,600 employees, 3,000 of which are agents.
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