Fauci Says Trump Did Not Order Less COVID-19 Testing

"It's the opposite. We're going to be doing more testing, not less," Fauci told a House commitee

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci at the White House in Washington, on April 17, 2020. Leah Millis/Reuters

Dr. Anthony Fauci told House lawmakers Tuesday that administration officials have not been ordered to slow down COVID-19 testing, despite President Donald Trump’s remarks at a rally, apparently made in jest, that he asked officials to “slow the testing down.”

Trump told supporters at Saturday’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that COVID-19 testing was “a double-edged sword.”