President Trump continued to donate his presidential salary by signing over his latest paycheck to the Department of Health and Human Services.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany announced the donation during a press conference on Friday, noting that the president earmarked the donation to go toward further research on treatments for the coronavirus.
“I want to note the president, as you all are well aware, donates his salary to various initiatives and parts across the federal government. In this quarter, he will be donating his salary to HHS, Health and Human Services, to develop new therapies for treating and preventing COVID-19 so that we can safely reopen,” McEnany said.
The president has made his quarterly donation of $100,000 to several government initiatives that he values, including a payment to the Department of Homeland Security to build the southern border wall and a donation to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health to combat opioid addiction. In March, Trump gave his first quarterly paycheck of 2020 to HHS to help the department work to contain the coronavirus.
Trump has been very optimistic about the development of therapeutics and prophylactics that can be used to treat or prevent the spread of the coronavirus while the world waits for a vaccine that could take a year or longer to develop. The president announced this week that he was taking the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine to prevent COVID-19.
