Coronavirus concerns may have kept Trump from meeting newly-elected GOP lawmakers in person at White House

Donald Trump.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) set up a visit to the White House for newly-elected Republican lawmakers Friday evening, but they didn't get a chance to meet President Trump in person, Politico reports.

The president did reportedly send his regards to the newcomers, but the fact that he stayed out of the spotlight raised some eyebrows.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.