Trump's visit Thursday is to a warehouse of Virginia-based Owens and Minor in suburban Allentown.
The Trump administration is preparing a new nationwide initiative to bolster U.S. manufacturing of critical medical supplies like N95 masks and ventilators that have been in dangerously short supply, senior administration officials tell ABC News.
Under the effort, the Health and Human Services Department would take the lead on monitoring hospital shelves and ordering enough supplies to last 90 days.
The focus would be minimizing reliance on production overseas by keeping production lines at U.S. factories "warm."
Trump's visit also comes on the heels of remarks on Twitter where he expressed dissatisfaction in Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's handling of reopening the state.