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The blocks' worth of fencing is being put in place to protect the White House in the face of protests, the Secret Service says. D.C.'s mayor has criticized the increased federal security in the area.

"Most religious leaders loved it," the president said in a Fox News Radio interview, defending his visit Monday after protesters were forcibly cleared from the area.

In a public break with President Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he does not support invoking the 1807 Insurrection Act and deploying troops to American streets.

"I find it baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated," says Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory.

A federal official says the White House had not approved the initial version, which included the warning, "The act of singing may contribute to transmission of COVID-19."

The Trump administration has mounted an "inconsistent and incoherent national response" to the COVID-19 pandemic by injecting politics into public health policy, The Lancet says.

Representatives from a number of states said the list provided to them for coronavirus testing contained labs that they already knew about, or ones that weren't approved for the testing.

The agency usually provides funding for legal aid hotlines after disasters. But the White House has not approved such funding for those affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

Kayleigh McEnany, Trump's fourth press secretary, took her first turn behind the lectern in the cramped confines of the James S. Brady briefing room Friday.