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White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, who is now serving as the national Defense Production Act policy coordinator, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 2, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Peter Navarro, W.H. trade adviser, on hydroxychloroquine: This drug could save lives

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 1, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump listens during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Trump is governing through the most dangerous crisis forced upon any U.S. leader since World War II. And just seven months before Election Day, he is entering a critical stretch that will determine his reelection, his legacy, and the character of the nation. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump sees limits of presidency in avoiding blame for virus

By STEVE PEOPLES and JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

A sign explains the closure of a shop in the Pike Place Market Thursday, April 2, 2020, in Seattle. The number of people seeking unemployment benefits in Washington set a new record last week, with tens of thousands more people in the state filing new claims as non-essential businesses remain closed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Small Business Administration admits Paycheck Protection Program loan application flaws

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 31, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence and Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, listen. Trump in recent days has grumbled that American companies such as 3M and GM are not doing enough to provide American medical workers and first responders with vital equipment they need. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump uses coronavirus crisis to push his broader agenda

By AAMER MADHANI - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 24, 2020, file photo stacks of medical supplies are housed at the Jacob Javits Center that will become a temporary hospital in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in New York. A review of federal purchasing contracts by The Associated Press shows federal agencies waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of N95 respirator masks, mechanical ventilators and other equipment needed by front-line health care workers. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

US ‘wasted’ months before preparing for coronavirus pandemic

By MICHAEL BIESECKER - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, Saturday, April 4, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump says he may take drug cocktail seen as potential treatment for coronavirus

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump points to a reporter to ask a question as he speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 2, 2020, in Washington, as White House adviser Jared Kushner listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump admin tries to narrow stockpile’s role for states

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and AMANDA SEITZ and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump look to the first lady's box before delivering his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker Nancy Pelosi watch. Trump and Pelosi have not spoken in five months at a time when the nation is battling its worst health crisis in a century. (Leah Millis/Pool via AP)

In time of crisis, Trump-Pelosi relationship remains broken

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and LAURIE KELLMAN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 2, 2020, in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

White House to require quick coronavirus test for anyone to meet Trump, Pence

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Georgia man accused of White House attack plot pleads guilty

Associated Press

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus Thursday, March 12, 2020, in Wilmington, De. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Donald Trump says he’d take Joe Biden’s call on coronavirus

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says ‘life and death’ at stake in following guidelines

By AAMER MADHANI and KEVIN FREKING and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

White House projects 100K to 240K US deaths from virus

By AAMER MADHANI and KEVIN FREKING and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

In this file photo from March 30, 2020, CNN's Jim Acosta questions President Trump on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. (Image: Fox News video screenshot) **FILE**

Jim Acosta, CNN ripped by Trump over ‘nasty, snarky’ questions as U.S. battles coronavirus

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

A patient is given a COVID-19 test by a medical worker outside Brooklyn Hospital Center, Sunday, March 29, 2020, in Brooklyn borough of New York. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Johnson & Johnson says it has ‘promising’ vaccine candidate for coronavirus

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 20, 2010 file photo, the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort is anchored off the coast of Haiti to support Operation Unified Response. On Wednesday, March, 18, 2020, President Donald Trump announced he will dispatch the Comfort to the New York City Harbor to provide New York City hospitals with relieve in taking on the COVID-19 virus. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Chelsea Kennedy/Released)

Trump: No quarantine, but travel advisory for NY, CT and NJ

By ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

In this file photo from Thursday, July 7, 2016, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., left, and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., listen to FBI Director James Comey during a House Oversight Committee hearing at the Capitol in Washington. Meadows, currently President Donald Trump's acting-chief of staff, is still the sitting representative of North Carolina's 11th Congressional District in the House of Representatives as the body prepares to vote on massive relief funding to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, Friday, March 27, 2020. Party leaders had hoped to pass the measure by voice vote without lawmakers having to take the risk of traveling to Washington, but that plan might be complicated by Massie who could force a roll call vote. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

Meadows toggles between legislator, White House roles

By ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVIN and ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks before he signs the coronavirus stimulus relief package in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, March 27, 2020, in Washington. Listening are from left, Larry Kudlow, White House chief economic adviser, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarty of Calif. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump signs $2 trillion economic plan to rush aid to businesses, workers hurt by coronavirus crisis

By Dave Boyer and S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

In this March 19, 2020 photo, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker listens to a question during a news conference in Chicago. Amid an unprecedented public health crisis, the nation’s governors are trying to get what they need from the federal government – and fast. But often that means navigating the disorienting politics of dealing with President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Flatter or fight? Governors seeking help must navigate Trump

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Briefing Room, Tuesday, March 24, 2020, in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listen. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump’s Easter goal in war on virus a nod to faith, business

By JILL COLVIN and ELANA SCHOR - Associated Press