Top Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow said the G-7 gathering of foreign leaders would be held at the White House in June.
“They are coming here at the end of June,” said National Economic Council Director Kudlow, speaking to reporters outside the White House on Friday. He said the invited leaders had agreed to attend the annual meeting of heads of states that include the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Japan, Italy, and the United Kingdom.
The move follows weeks of speculation as President Trump and White House officials talked about resurrecting the in-person meeting.
In March, the White House said it would host the meeting virtually due to the coronavirus and the risk of spreading the disease.
Shortly thereafter, the administration said that G-7 leaders agreed to a “thorough review and reform” of the World Health Organization as Washington pressed for more accountability from the WHO and Beijing for the spread of the virus.
The president tweeted earlier this month that he hoped to hold the meeting at Camp David, a move he said would signal “normalization.”
Trump’s national security adviser Robert O’Brien said in an interview last week on Face the Nation that the revived in-person invite received a “great response” from other leaders. He said the meeting was likely to take place “later in June.”
After marking a 14-day downward trend in new coronavirus cases, a key benchmark, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said the district would start lifting a stay-at-home order on Friday.
