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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At Thursday's White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing, Trump addressed questions about when, and how, the country could reopen. -
President Trump and congressional Democrats are haggling over the size of the next bill designed to help Americans through the crisis. -
Trump told reporters on Tuesday that he wanted to be positive but also that his actions in response to the pandemic came as quickly as practical. -
"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. -
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.
