“It’s a question of when and I think it’s going to go quickly.
“It’s been something, but we’re winning and we will win,” he said. Trump later met nursing leaders and expressed “gratitude for those on the front lines in our war against the global pandemic” as he held out hope that the pandemic would be over soon. He was asked about a report that a White House aide had referred to the virus as the “Kung flu” when talking to an Asian-American reporter and Trump did not signal disapproval of the offensive term. The president also employed more nativist, us-vs-them rhetoric at the briefing, continuing his recent habit of referring to the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus,” which has been sharply criticized as racist. No longer able to run for reelection on a healthy economy, he was taking on the mantle of a wartime leader after played down the severity of the crisis for weeks. “I view it as a, in a sense, a wartime president. Trump likened the effort to the measures taken during World War II and said it would require national “sacrifice.” The government has told Americans to avoid groups of more than 10 people and the elderly to stay home while a pointed reminder was given to millennials to follow the guidelines and avoid social gatherings. That’s an “absolute total worst case scenario,” Trump said. Trump dismissed a suggestion from his own treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, that the nation could face 20% unemployment at least in the short term. “Perhaps that’s the story of life,” Trump said.
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The president was pressed on why a number of celebrities, like professional basketball players, seemed to have easier access to diagnostic tests than ordinary citizens. The White House urged hospitals to cancel all elective surgeries to reduce the risk of being overwhelmed by cases. Meanwhile the administration pushed forward its broad economic rescue plan, which proposes $500 billion in checks to millions of Americans, with the first checks to come April 6 if Congress approves. The measure is also aimed at making tests for the virus free.
The vote was a lopsided 90-8 despite worries by many Republicans about a temporary new employer mandate to provide sick leave to workers who get COVID-19. The Senate overwhelmingly passed a second coronavirus response bill, which Trump signed Wednesday night. The administration announcements came on a fast-moving day of developments across the capital, its empty streets standing in contrast to the whirlwind of activity inside the grand spaces of the White House and the Capitol. Gone were nearly all the gains that the Dow Jones Industrial Average had made since Trump took office. And the Housing and Urban Development Department will suspend foreclosures and evictions through April to help the growing number of Americans who face losing jobs and missing rent and mortgage payments.īut as Trump laid out efforts to help the economy, markets plummeted. Trump said he will expand the nation’s diagnostic testing capacity and deploy a Navy hospital ship to New York City, which is rapidly becoming an epicenter of the pandemic, and another such ship to the West Coast. border, the world’s longest, was effectively closed, save for commerce and essential travel, while the administration pushed its plan to send relief checks to millions of Americans.
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The mixed messaging came as Trump took a series of other extraordinary steps to steady the nation, its day-to-day life suddenly and fundamentally altered. “Hopefully there will be no need,” he added, “but we are all in this TOGETHER!” Yet he seemed to minimize the urgency of the decision, later tweeting that he “only signed the Defense Production Act to combat the Chinese Virus should we need to invoke it in a worst case scenario in the future.” Trump tapped his authority under the 70-year-old Defense Production Act to give the government more power to steer production by private companies and try to overcome shortages in masks, ventilators and other supplies. Trump also signed an aid package - which the Senate approved earlier Wednesday - that will guarantee sick leave to workers who fall ill. WASHINGTON (AP) - Describing himself as a “wartime president” fighting an invisible enemy, President Donald Trump invoked rarely used emergency powers to marshal critical medical supplies against the coronavirus pandemic. AMUdisasterCREW brings you daily emergency and disaster planning tips, pics, videos, news and a lot more. Click the button below to see the latest COVID-19 updates from American Military University’s first-responder experts on Twitter.
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