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Meanwhile, stocks and oil prices have been falling.

Trump has sought to assuage the public’s fears about the virus while reassuring people that he has it under control. But as our chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, points out in a new analysis, the coronavirus has the potential to shed a negative light on some of Trump’s budget cuts within the White House.

“Who would have thought we would even be having the subject?” Trump said during a visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday. But in fact, when he shut down the office responsible for preparing for pandemics in 2018, an official was clear about the threat.

“The threat of pandemic flu is the No. 1 health security concern,” the official said then. “Are we ready to respond? I fear the answer is no.”

If the virus is not contained, and it does cause an economic downturn, Trump may have a hard time escaping some culpability for the way he sought to confront it.

Warren’s campaign is over, but she’s not out of the spotlight.

The last major presidential candidate who still hasn’t endorsed is, of course, Elizabeth Warren. And so far she’s offered no signs on where she could come down.