Philip Ewing
Philip Ewing is an election security editor with NPR's Washington Desk. He helps oversee coverage of election security, voting, disinformation, active measures and other issues. Ewing joined the Washington Desk from his previous role as NPR's national security editor, in which he helped direct coverage of the military, intelligence community, counterterrorism, veterans and more. He came to NPR in 2015 from Politico, where he was a Pentagon correspondent and defense editor. Previously, he served as managing editor of Military.com, and before that he covered the U.S. Navy for the Military Times newspapers.
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"Tremendous progress has been made in a very short period," Trump said. But his administration is also trying to brace the public for a dire ordeal. -
At a White House briefing Thursday, officials vowed that some of the first systems for loans or payments would be up and running as soon as Friday. -
Trump also said he hesitates to apply too much pressure because it would be difficult for airlines to then start operating again as before. -
America must brace for 100,000 or more people to die in the coming months in the coronavirus pandemic, the White House's response team warned. -
The White House coronavirus task force convened a news conference following a concession by the Trump administration that normalcy won't be restored by Easter or maybe even this spring. -
The president and defense secretary said the USNS Comfort would offer its roughly 1,000 hospital beds as surge capacity for non-coronavirus sufferers in the New York region, freeing up space on land. -
The president said the automaker was taking too long to negotiate what he called an urgent contract under which it and health manufacturer Ventec would build the machines.
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Trump said he believed the federal government has been working well with most states in the disaster but he griped about complaints reported by some Democratic governors. -
The president demanded in all capital letters on Friday that automakers General Motors and Ford get into the health equipment business to fight the coronavirus. -
President Trump says test data will establish risk categories for counties. States can then work out their own social distancing rules.
