White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told Fox Business on Thursday that President Donald Trump will not institute a lockdown in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
"There's not any part of our strategy that's going to include a lockdown," Meadows told "Mornings with Maria."
He added, "This president has been making sure that we're working around the clock to get therapeutics and vaccines, and we're well on our way, hopefully within weeks of deploying vaccines and getting final approval with a couple of different companies."
Meadows added that Trump is focused on improving the economy, and ensuring ''that America is open for business'' despite the rising number of deaths from the coronavirus being reported each day.
"That's what the president's all about: finding ways to make sure we can grow our economy, lowering taxes. He's got a plan that he's working to lower taxes for middle-income wage earners and also looking at incentives to bring onshoring, bring companies back from abroad here to the United States," Meadows said.
"We're going to make sure that America is open for business so you can say, 'Made in America,' and it not only produces the highest quality but at the lowest cost," he added.
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