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Vice President Pence applauds Gov. Brown's donation of 140 ventilators to New York


Vice President Mike Pence speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 2, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Vice President Mike Pence speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 2, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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During the White House Coronavirus Task Force press conference Saturday, Vice President Mike Pence took time to thank Oregon Gov. Kate Brown for her decision to donate 140 ventilators to New York.

Brown posted on Twitter Saturday morning saying Oregon will be sending 140 ventilators to New York because "Oregon is in a better position right now."

"New York needs more ventilators, and we are answering their call for help," Brown wrote.

In the press conference, Pence said this act "was in the very highest American tradition of loving your neighbor."

Read his full comments about Oregon's ventilator donation below:

“Allow me to say as I told her personally today, the governor of Oregon, Governor Kate Brown – her unilateral decision to send 140 ventilators because Oregon – they felt Oregon today is in a place where they can give those ventilators to New York, to me was in the very highest American tradition of loving your neighbor. And when I talked to Governor Cuomo, Mr. President, he said they never asked Oregon for the ventilators and Governor Brown hadn’t even called him to tell him that she was doing that. It really is remarkable.”



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