Photo taken on March 20, 2020 shows a school closed due to COVID-19 in New Orleans, Louisiana, the United States. (Photo by Lan Wei/Xinhua)

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened in his tweets to "cut off federal funding" for schools if they do not resume in-person learning this fall.

WASHINGTON, July 8  -- White House on Wednesday continued to push states to reopen schools in the fall as the country's COVID-19 cases passed 3 million with over 132,000 deaths.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened in his tweets to "cut off federal funding" for schools if they do not resume in-person learning this fall and criticized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for "their very tough & expensive guidelines" for opening schools.

During a press briefing of the White House coronavirus task force that took place a few hours later at the Education Department, Vice President Mike Pence said the CDC would issue new guidance on reopening schools next week.

"We don't want the guidance from CDC to be a reason why schools don't open," Pence said. "I think that every American, every American knows that we can safely reopen our schools."