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President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the White House’s coronavirus task force would continue its work “indefinitely,” backing away from earlier plans to wind it down.
Trump made the announcement in a series of Twitter posts. He said the group may add or subtract members and that it would focus on safety, reopening the country, and vaccines and therapeutics.
Visiting Arizona on Tuesday, Trump said “we will have something in a different form” in place of the task force. He said “we can’t keep our country closed for the next five years” when asked why the administration was phasing it out.
Democrats criticized the decision to close the task force. “It appears the plan is, shamefully, to have no plan,” Trump’s 2016 election opponent Hillary Clinton wrote on Twitter.
