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Despite record numbers of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. from mid-June onward and an increasing percentage of positive test results, Trump largely continued to downplay the pandemic, including his false claim in early July 2020 that 99 percent of COVID-19 cases are "totally harmless".<ref>{{cite news|last=Blake|first=Aaron|title=President Trump, coronavirus truther|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/06/trump-throws-caution-wind-coronavirus/|access-date=July 11, 2020|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=July 6, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-factcheck.html|title=Trump Falsely Claims '99 Percent' of Virus Cases Are 'Totally Harmless'|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 5, 2020|access-date=October 7, 2021|first1=Roni Caryn|last1=Rabin|first2=Chris|last2=Cameron}}</ref> He began insisting that all states should resume in-person education in the fall despite a July spike in reported cases.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/07/07/888157257/white-house-pushes-to-reopen-schools-despite-a-surge-in-coronavirus-cases|title=Trump Pledges To 'Pressure' Governors To Reopen Schools Despite Health Concerns|last=Sprunt|first=Barbara|date=July 7, 2020|work=[[NPR]]|access-date=July 10, 2020}}</ref>
==== COVID-19 stimulus spending ====
Despite continued downplaying of both the pandemics effect on the U.S. economy and of vaccine effectiveness, Trump signed an initial $8 billion aid package relating to vaccine research and outbreak prevention into law in March of 2020 following an expansion of the [[COVID-19 recession]].<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Hirsch|first1=Lauren|last2=Breuninger|first2=Kevin|date=March 6, 2020|title=Trump signs $8.3 billion emergency coronavirus spending package|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/trump-signs-8point3-billion-emergency-coronavirus-spending-package.html|access-date=October 5, 2020|website=[[CNBC]]|language=en|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215175449/https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/trump-signs-8point3-billion-emergency-coronavirus-spending-package.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Subsequent lobbying by the public and small businesses for additional aid resulted in a secondary $192 billion and tertiary $2.2 trillion aid package passing, the latter of which, titled the [[CARES Act]], emerged as the largest [[Stimulus (economics)|stimulus]] package in U.S. history.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Grisales|first=Claudia|date=March 18, 2020|title=President Trump Signs Coronavirus Emergency Aid Package|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/03/18/817737690/senate-passes-coronavirus-emergency-aid-sending-plan-to-president|access-date=October 5, 2020|newspaper=[[NPR]]|language=en|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215175451/https://www.npr.org/2020/03/18/817737690/senate-passes-coronavirus-emergency-aid-sending-plan-to-president|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hulse |first1=Carl |last2=Cochrane |first2=Emily |title=As Coronavirus Spread, Largest Stimulus in History United a Polarized Senate |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/coronavirus-senate-stimulus-package.html |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 26, 2020 |access-date=July 11, 2020 |archive-date=October 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006070721/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/coronavirus-senate-stimulus-package.html/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Consisting of expanded unemployment benefits, forgivable small business loans, a temporary [[child tax credit]], and $1,200 stimulus checks to individual Americans, Trump would go on to utilize the CARES Act in a manner to boost the political chances of himself and down-ballot [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]] in the upcoming [[2020 United States elections|2020 elections]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Gittleson |first=Ben | url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/inside-donald-trumps-stimulus-checks/story?id=77534116 | title=An inside look at how Donald Trump's name came to appear on stimulus checks | website=[[ABC News]] | date=May 7, 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.npr.org/2020/03/27/822062909/house-aims-to-send-2-trillion-rescue-package-to-president-to-stem-coronavirus-cr | title= President Trump Signs $2 Trillion Coronavirus Rescue Package Into Law | work=[[NPR]] | date=March 27, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Seddiq |first=Oma | url=https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-demand-2000-checks-cost-gop-but-shows-his-power-2020-12 | title=Trump’s demand for $2,000 stimulus checks could cost the GOP its Senate majority, but reveals his enduring influence within the party | website=[[Business Insider]] | date=December 29, 2020 }}</ref> Following his subsequent defeat in said election, [[Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021|further stimulus legislation]] was signed into law despite Trump's own claims the legislation consisted of wasteful spending and inadequately sized stimulus checks.<ref>{{cite web |last=Seddiq |first=Oma | url=https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-demand-2000-checks-cost-gop-but-shows-his-power-2020-12 | title=Trump's demand for $2,000 stimulus checks could cost the GOP its Senate majority, but reveals his enduring influence within the party | website=[[Business Insider]] | date=December 29, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/23/politics/trump-complaints-spending-bill-graphic/index.html|publisher=CNN|title=Trump's complaints vs. his own budget proposal|date=December 23, 2020|first1=Kevin |last1=Liptak |first2=Christopher |last2=Hickey}}</ref>
==== Political pressure on health agencies ====
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