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]]>“She’s a wonderful young woman, Katie, she tested very good for a long period of time,” President Donald Trump said on Friday during a meeting with congressional Republicans at the White House. “And then all of the sudden today she tested positive. She hasn’t come into contact with me. She’s spent some time with the vice president.”
“This is why the whole concept of tests aren’t necessarily great,” the president continued. “The tests are perfect, but something can happen between a test where it’s good and then something happens and all of the sudden. She was tested very recently and tested negative, and then today I guess for some reason she tested positive. So Mike knows about it and Mike has done what he has to do. I think he is on an airplane, going to some far away place, but you’ll be able to ask him later on. But they’ve taken all of the necessary precautions. I understand Mike has been tested, vice president, and he tested negative.”
President Trump is so close to the Miller couple that he attended their wedding in February 2020 at the Trump International Hotel, where he stayed at the party for roughly two hours and delivered a short speech to toast them.
He has worked closely with Stephen Miller – one of the key architects of his administration’s immigration policy – since the 2016 campaign.
Katie Miller’s positive diagnosis of Covid-19 comes as the president promotes the re-opening of the economy in more than a dozen states and as he has started to travel outside of the White House again. This past week, he visited a Honeywell factory in Arizona where he toured the plant without wearing a face mask.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany earlier on Friday confirmed that a member of the vice president’s team had tested positive for coronavirus — just one day after one of the president’s personal valets contracted the illness — although she did not specify who the person was.
The vice president’s trip to Iowa on Friday was delayed by more than an hour as six other Pence staffers who had been in contact with Miller were removed from Air Force Two.
The White House said that the Pence staffer had tested negative on Thursday before receiving positive test results Friday morning. A senior administration official told reporters that the president and vice president had not been in contact with the person recently.
Pence was tested on Friday and has been tested daily, according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters traveling with the vice president.
“We have put in place the guidelines that our experts have put forward to keep this building safe, which means contact tracing,” McEnany told reporters during Friday’s news briefing. “All of the recommended guidelines we have for businesses that have essential workers, we are now putting them in place here in the White House. So as America reopens safely, the White House is continuing to operate safely.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends anyone who has been exposed to a person with the coronavirus should “stay home until 14 days after last exposure and maintain social distance (at least 6 feet) from others at all times.”
The vice president is scheduled to meet with faith leaders in Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday to discuss responsible religious gatherings, followed by a roundtable on securing food supply. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and Iowa Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst also accompanied Pence on the trip.
While staff in the West Wing are tested regularly, according to the pool report, staff members in the Executive Office Building are not tested as frequently. About 10 people on Pence’s staff are tested daily.
Both the president and vice president have avoided wearing masks at White House events and during travel. Just last week, Pence faced backlash for breaking the Mayo Clinic’s mask policy when he toured the medical facility and met with patients. Citing how frequently he’s tested for Covid-19 during a Fox News town hall over the weekend, Pence said, “I didn’t think it was necessary, but I should’ve worn the mask at the Mayo Clinic.”
During his meeting with GOP members of Congress on Friday, Trump was pressed on not wearing a mask when visiting with elderly WWII veterans earlier in the day. The president said he was not concerned because he was “very far away from them.”
“I would have loved to have gone up and hugged them because they are great. I had a conversation with every one, but we were very far away. You saw,” Trump continued. “Plus the wind was blowing so hard in such a direction that if the plague ever reached them, I’d be very surprised. It could have reached me, too. You didn’t worry about me, you only worried about them, and that’s OK because I think they’re so pure, it will never happen. Alright? They’ve lived a great life. But no, the wind was howling. And I didn’t see anybody with masks, I don’t know, maybe there were. But they were great.”
Trump on Thursday said both he and Pence had tested negative for coronavirus after they were informed that a member of the U.S. military who works at the White House had tested positive. That individual is one of the president’s valets, military members who assist the president with personal tasks.
Judd Deere, a White House spokesman, said in a statement: “The president’s physician and White House Operations continue to work closely to ensure every precaution is taken to keep the president, First Family and the entire White House complex safe and healthy at all times. In addition to social distancing, daily temperature checks and symptom histories, hand sanitizer, and regular deep cleaning of all work spaces.”
Nancy Cook contributed to this report.
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]]>Miller, the chief architect of the president’s migration program and one of his longest-serving and most trusted advisers, talked to a group of Trump surrogates Thursday in an off-the-record call about the brand-new executive order, which had been signed the night prior to. The White House had seen the relocation as something that would resonate with Trump’s political base, the administration instead was facing criticism from migration hard-liners who were disappointed that the order does not apply to short-term foreign workers despite Trump pitching it as assisting to secure tasks for Americans.
Miller told the group that subsequent steps were under consideration that would limit visitor worker programs, however the “the most essential thing is to switch off the faucet of new immigrant labor,” he stated, according to a recording acquired by The Washington Post. Miller indicated that the technique is part of a long-term vision and not seen just as a stopgap.
” As a mathematical proposition, when you suspend the entry of a brand-new immigrant from abroad, you’re also reducing migration even more because the chains of follow-on migration that are interrupted,” stated Miller, one of the executive order’s main authors. “So the benefit to American workers compounds with time.”
Miller decreased to comment Friday. A White Home spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for remark.
The Trump administration has actually been pursuing years to scrap the family-based U.S. immigration design, which Miller and other restrictionists call “chain migration.” Instead, the White House prefers a more restrictive system based on task abilities and U.S. labor market needs.
Although Trump described his order today as a short-lived “time out,” he also said it is an open-ended move that will stay in location till he chooses the U.S. labor market has actually adequately enhanced once the coronavirus crisis subsides. He said he will review it after 60 days and may extend the migration limitations to assist Americans find jobs when states reopen their economies.
From March 15 to April 18, 26.5 million Americans applied for unemployment, sending out joblessness to levels not recorded since the Great Anxiety. The economic impact might be lengthy, as it remains unclear the length of time the pandemic will keep services closed and individuals in their homes.
The title of Trump’s order– “Proclamation Suspending Entry of Immigrants Who Present Threat to the U.S. Labor Market During the Economic Healing Following the Covid-19 Break out”– makes explicit that the underlying rationale for the president’s limitations are economic, not epidemiological.
Miller has actually been the leading proponent of the argument that immigrants compete for jobs with U.S. employees and depress their salaries. The argument is anathema to numerous financial experts and pro-business Republican politicians who argue that immigration fuels long-lasting U.S. development and keeps U.S. markets competitive.
The dispute stays a significant fault line in the Republican Party, with numerous GOP members reluctant to support the more hard-line positions Miller backs. Trump’s efforts to upgrade the immigration system have gone to pieces in Congress.
Ken Cuccinelli, who works as acting deputy Homeland Security secretary and signed up with Miller on the call, said Trump had actually been thinking about an immigration freeze long prior to his 10: 06 p.m. tweet Monday night announcing his strategies to “temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!”
” This is something the president has actually been looking at himself considering that the economic results of the covid virus began,” stated Cuccinelli, who spoke less than Miller during the 23- minute call. “We have actually had various discussions with him. Therefore what you saw yesterday was an extension of his own thinking.”
Department of Homeland Security authorities did not instantly respond to a request for remark Friday.
Miller was involved in crafting and selling the executive order, officials stated, working quietly without lots of others in the administration understanding. Senior White House authorities said the memo had not been vetted by lawyers or leading authorities before the president tweeted that he would be signing it.
Trump acknowledged sending out the tweet prior to the order was composed, and the version he signed Wednesday was far less sweeping than the one he had actually teased on social networks. It does not apply to immigrants already living and working in the United States who are looking for long-term residency, nor does it apply to the spouses and children of U.S. residents, to name a few exemptions.
But the measure, which took effect Thursday, does block the other immigrant visa classifications Trump calls “chain migration,” particularly the ability for U.S. residents to sponsor their parents, adult children and siblings. In 2015, the State Department provided about 460,000 immigrant visas, and over half were in the classifications the order stops.
Various supporters for immigrants said the order was far less restrictive than they had actually feared and stated it has more of a political impact than an useful one. Due to the fact that the order has no bearing on farmworkers, medical professionals and other “nonimmigrant” visa classifications, restrictionist groups panned the relocation.
Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a leading restrictionist group that has actually supported the president’s agenda, sent out a letter to Trump Thursday blasting the order for leaving out temporary work visas.
” Under what craven concept of American equity would the United States continue a subordinated labor importation program at a time when American workers remain in such distress?” Stein wrote. “The optics are ravaging– we are ending up being a two-class society, with a servant caste relegated to visitor employee status continuing apace while Americans search frantically for employment.”
On the call, Miller sounded stung by the criticism from the right and prompted surrogates and advocates to defend the president.
” All around the country, Americans of every political stripe will rally behind an effort to make certain that they, their children, their moms and dads, their other halves, better halves, kids, uncles, nephews, cousins can be the very first to get a task when it opens up, to get her old job back when they rehire or to keep their task if they currently have one,” he stated.
” Those people have a right and an expectation to get their jobs back and not to be replaced by foreign workers. That’s the action the president took, it is historic. It is essential, it is necessary, it is patriotic and it should have the full-throated support of everybody on this call.”
International travel to the United States had currently plunged given that the coronavirus outbreak. Cuccinelli informed listeners on the call that the number of passengers arriving from Europe has actually dropped to about 500 daily, below 60,000 before the crisis.
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]]>Von Miller, the second NFL gamer to reveal that he is contaminated with the coronavirus, said he was stunned when he tested favorable.
The superstar Denver Broncos linebacker appeared Friday on the “TODAY” program from his home in Colorado using a gray hoodie and eyeglasses.
” It all started with just an easy cough and it got worse,” Miller, 31, stated.
Miller, who won the Most Prized possession Player Award in Super Bowl 50, said he has asthma and his girlfriend had told him he wasn’t sounding normal.
He stated he attempted a nebulizer, “but it really didn’t work like it should.”
” And my assistant stated, ‘Why don’t you just get evaluated?'” Miller said.
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He discovered 2 days later on of his medical diagnosis, which was first reported Thursday by NFL Network. A day earlier, Brian Allen, a center for the Los Angeles Rams, became the very first active NFL player to reveal that he evaluated positive for the coronavirus.
Miller said Friday that when his medical professional informed him of his positive result, “I was surprised.”
He stated he has actually been taking the pandemic seriously “since day one.”
He was training in San Francisco when the city in mid-March provided a stay-at-home order. After that, he went to Denver where he lives and remained there, Miller stated.
In the 4 weeks he has actually been in Denver, Miller stated he has left his house just four times and has had some individuals concern the house, such as a plumbing professional and maids.
Inquired about the possibility of playing to an empty stadium when the NFL season starts in the fall, which the league has been considering, Miller stated: “Whatever’s safe … Whatever we need to do to get things back to typical, that’s what we have to do.”
” We should not move too quick,” Miller stated.
Miller was the 2nd general pick in the 2011 draft. He has been chosen to the Pro Bowl 8 out of his 9 years in the league.
In a statement Thursday, the Broncos stated Miller is the very first person in their organization to have evaluated favorable for the virus.
Miller “elected to share his diagnosis openly to highlight that anyone can be affected with coronavirus,” the statement stated.
Janelle Griffith is a breaking news press reporter for NBC News.
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