Jared Kushner mocks the 'eternal lockdown crowd,' says he hopes the country will be 'really rocking again' by July

• Jared Kushner made a forceful case for the administration's coronavirus response in a Fox News appearance on Wednesday morning, calling it "a great success story."
• "I always find that we see the leading indicators, and often the media sees the lagging indicators," Kushner said. "But ... I'm very confident that we have all the testing we need to start opening the country [under the administration's guidelines]."
• "I think you'll see by June a lot of the country should be back to normal and the hope is that by July the country's really rocking again," Kushner said, despite medical experts repeated warnings of returning to "normal" before testing, tracing, and ultimately a vaccine are widely available.
• He also decried "the eternal lockdown crowd" making "jokes on late night television" about the administration, reiterating that his focus is getting Americans back to work.
• Kushner's public appearances have been sparse through most of Trump's first term, but he has taken a leading role in the coronavirus response, the latest addition to his vast policy portfolio.
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Jared Kushner took a bullish stance on the coronavirus during a Fox News appearance on Wednesday morning.

The White House senior adviser and President Trump's son-in-law said the goal is to have much of the country "back to normal" by June, and for the nation to be "really rocking again" by July.

He also described the country as being "on the other side of the medical aspect of this" despite cases mounting in rural states.

"The federal government rose to the challenge, and this is a great success story," Kushner said on Fox & Friends.

"I think you'll see by June a lot of the country should be back to normal and the hope is that by July the country's really rocking again," Kushner added.

Kushner argued that media coverage has mostly been focusing on the more negative "lagging indicators," pointing to what he described as the administration building a head of steam into reopening the economy by ramping up testing.

"I always find that we see the leading indicators, and often the media sees the lagging indicators," Kushner said. "But ... I'm very confident that we have all the testing we need to start opening the country [under the administration's guidelines]."

In as similar manner to his boss and father-in-law, Kushner painted a rosy picture of the United States' widely criticized testing rollout, which was rocky early on as the nation's cases skyrocketed to around one third of the global total.

Although the US now leads the world in total tests administered and recently surpassed South Korea in tests per capita, experts say far more are needed in order to open up the economy in any meaningful way.

"Somebody asked me why [testing] took so long," Kushner said. "I actually said, you should look at how did we do this so quickly."

"The eternal lockdown crowd can make jokes on late night television, but the reality is that the data is on our side."