West more than 2300000 americans have been infected and about 122000 have to alan fisher is following developments in washington and has more on president trumps response. You remember that donald trump said that he ordered his staff to start slowing down on testing because they were getting too many cases the white house then said it was a joke that wasnt the case donald trump said he never jokes and then we had from the Administration Just on whedons day that they were going to essentially do away with federal testing in many areas no that has provoked a backlash particularly from the 2 senators down in texas who are seeing a huge surge in the number of cases they say that perhaps the Administration Needs to rethink that at the moment donald trump hasnt made any comment on that but its the sort of thing he tends to back away from when he realizes theres a backlash that might actually impact republicans and so that may well be rethought lotty kudlow whos a Senior Advisor to the presid
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