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Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he pressed President Trump on testing during a “productive” Oval Office meeting on Tuesday afternoon, just days after they had an enormous row on Twitter and national television.

Cuomo also told the president during the White House visit that New York no longer needed the USNS Comfort to treat COVID-19 infected patients, offering to deploy it to another hard-hit state.

Trump confirmed later Tuesday that the ship would be headed back to its base in Virginia in preparation to be sent to another state — just weeks after it arrived in New York.

“It was very good to have in case we had overflow, but I said we don’t really need the Comfort anymore,” Cuomo told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace of the hospital ship after the Oval Office meeting.

“It did give us comfort but we don’t need it anymore, so if they need to deploy that somewhere else, they should take it,” he continued.

The ship was deployed to New York by the Trump administration in late March to help relieve the state’s overwhelmed hospitals but has sat mostly empty in New York harbor.

Speaking later during the White House coronavirus task force briefing, Trump said the military ship, which had capacity for 500 beds, would be leaving as soon as possible.

“I’ve asked Andrew if we could bring the Comfort back to it’s base in Virginia so that we could have it for other locations and he said we would be able to do that,” he said.

“The Javits Center has been a great help to them but we’ll be bringing the shop back at the earliest time and we’ll get it ready for its next missions which I’m sure will be an important one also,” he continued.

The ship faced public criticism for treating too few patients as the city’s emergency departments struggled with a tsunami of COVID-19 cases.

Cuomo indicated he was the one to request Tuesday’s White House visit as the Empire State struggles with COVID-19 testing and a looming financial crisis.

“I wanted to have a face-to-face conversation. This is about testing and who does what on testing but we had to get this ironed out, so to speak. This is a very big issue,” Cuomo said.

Trump also described the meeting as a “very productive” conversation about doubling testing in New York in the next two weeks, and said the federal government had “spared no expense or resource to get New Yorkers the care they need or that they deserve.”

More than 5 million masks had been sent to the Empire State, along with thousands of ventilators — some of which Cuomo will start sending to Massachusetts, Trump said.

The two New York-born lawmakers have sparred publicly during the COVID-19 crisis — the president accusing Cuomo of being ungrateful for federal assistance and inflating his requests for supplies such as ventilators.

On Thursday, Cuomo accused Trump of trying to wash his hands of issues around testing, saying states couldn’t ramp up screening without federal assistance as the administration looks to reopen parts of the economy before May 1.

But the governor was much more complimentary on Tuesday, saying he felt no pressure from the president to reopen before the state is ready.

“The sense I got from the president is that he was deferential to the needs of that state and the full spectrum of states because some states are in a very different position,” he said.

“He was inquisitive about what we were doing and what we thought and what we needed, but he never editorialized on what he thought was an appropriate timeline,” he continued.

The men also appeared to bond over their ravaged home town, the president telling Cuomo he had never seen the Big Apple shut down like it is now, he said.

The number of coronavirus cases in New York are falling but the state has still been devastated by the crisis, with more than 242,786 cases and 13,869 deaths as of Tuesday afternoon.