US President Donald Trump, who has donated every one of his
salary payments to government agencies or efforts since becoming president, has
donated his 2019 fourth quarterly salary to the Department of Health and Human
Services to help fight the coronavirus outbreak in the US.
Trump made the payment after taking a trip to the National
Institute of Health on Tuesday afternoon to meet top immunologist Anthony Fauci
as the US now has 100 confirmed cases of coronavirus with nine deaths recorded
in Washington.
Trump's yearly salary is $400,000 every year from which he
is paid $100,000 every 3 months.
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham posted on
Twitter an image of the $100,000 check from Trump to HHS Secretary Alex Azar .
Last week, Trump submitted a $2.5 billion supplemental
funding request to Congress to fight the spread of coronavirus, but lawmakers
criticized the amount for being insufficient saying the virus needed $8 million
to help in combating it.
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