WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is again set to tour the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta on Friday after the planned trip was briefly canceled due a suspected case of coronavirus that turned out to be negative, according to White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham.
Grisham told reporters aboard Air Force One the trip was back on after the brief cancellation. She said the visit was canceled "out of an abundance of caution" after the CDC alerted the White House a CDC staff member was suspected to have contracted coronavirus.
Before traveling to Tennessee to inspect storm damage after tornadoes wreaked havoc and left 24 people dead this week, Trump told reporters he wanted to keep the CDC visit on his Friday schedule.
"I would prefer going...now that the test came out negative," he told reporters at the White House. "They’re trying to work it out that I do go.”
Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar is also expected to tour the CDC.
The president revealed the reason behind the trip's cancellation at a signing ceremony for the $8.3-billion supplemental spending package to combat the rapid spread of coronavirus approved by Congress earlier this week.
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“We’ve signed the $8.3 billion. I asked for two and half and I got $8.3 and i'll take it," he told reporters.
The package, which passed the Senate on Thursday, will replace the initial White House request of $2.5 billion, an amount roundly criticized by lawmakers as too little to combat the virus that continues to spread globally and has so far killed at least 12 people in the U.S.
Earlier on Friday the White House said the president's visit had been canceled because he didn't want to interfere with the center's battle against the rapid spread of coronavirus.
"The President is no longer traveling to Atlanta today. The CDC has been proactive and prepared since the very beginning and the President does not want to interfere with the CDC's mission to protect the health and welfare of their people and the agency," the White House said in a statement.
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The U.S. confirmed 233 cases of COVID-19, with new cases reported in Colorado, Maryland, Nevada and New Jersey on Thursday. At least 12 Americans and more than 3,400 people globally have died from the virus. The worldwide total of coronavirus cases reached more than 100,000 on Friday morning.
Trump will travel to Atlanta after his stop in Nashville, before flying to South Florida for a weekend at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach.
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