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U.S. president Donald Trump and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force brief the media on March 16, 2020.. The White House Coronavirus Task Force was the United States Department of State task force during the Trump administration, the goal of the Task Force was to coordinate and oversee the administration's efforts to monitor, prevent, contain, and mitigate the spread of ...
University of Chicago ( JD) Pasquale Anthony " Pat " Cipollone [1] (born May 6, 1966) [2] is an American attorney who served as White House Counsel for President Donald Trump. While in office he defended Trump in his first impeachment trial. He objected to Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and played a key role in the ...
The count of the Electoral College ballots during a joint session of the 117th United States Congress, pursuant to the Electoral Count Act, on January 6–7, 2021, was the final step to confirm President-elect Joe Biden 's victory in the 2020 presidential election over President Donald Trump . The event drew unprecedented attention because of ...
Kayleigh McEnany, September 9, 2020 "I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down because I don't want to create a panic." —Trump, recorded privately on March 19, 2020 (Bob Woodward released recording in Sept.) On March 6, Trump over-promised on the availability of COVID-19 testing in the United States, claiming that "anybody that wants a test can get a test." Firstly, there ...
The presidential transition of Joe Biden began on November 7, 2020, and ended on January 20, 2021. Unlike previous presidential transitions, which normally take place during the roughly 10-week period between the election in the first week of November and the inauguration on January 20, Biden's presidential transition was shortened somewhat because the General Services Administration under the ...
1776 Commission. The 1776 Commission, also nicknamed the 1776 Project, [1] [2] was an advisory committee established in September 2020 by then-U.S. President Donald Trump to support what he called "patriotic education". [3] The commission released The 1776 Report on January 18, 2021, two days before the end of Trump's term of office. [4]
On December 12, 2020, a National Security Council (NSC) meeting was held at the White House to discuss the breach of federal organizations. On December 13, 2020, CISA issued an emergency directive asking federal agencies to disable the SolarWinds software, to reduce the risk of additional intrusions, even though doing so would reduce those ...
The core White House staff appointments, and most Executive Office of the President officials generally, are not required to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, with a handful of exceptions (e.g., the director of the Office of Management and Budget, the chair and members of the Council of Economic Advisers, and the United States trade ...