'I'm just wondering why it took a dive in the stock market before the Trump administration decided this was an important issue.' Senators respond to coronavirus, with some concerned the Trump administration is not doing enough to prevent its spread.
February 25, 2020, 8:43 PMPresident Trump, speaking in India, said Tuesday that while the coronavirus is a"very serious thing" but is"under control" in the U.S. and will"go away."With an uptick in coronavirus cases in the U.S.
“You’re head of Homeland Security. Do we have enough respirators or not?” said Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, in one testy exchange with Chad Wolf, acting head of the Department of Homeland Security. He deferred questions on the scope of the crisis and preparedness plans to the Health and Human Services Department.
“This is not the time to try to shortchange the American people… This is the time to step up,” Shelby said. “We have enacted the most aggressive containment measures in the history of our country in terms of our borders,” Azar told a Senate panel. “We should have emergency preparedness, not that we have an emergency in America, but we have to prepare to make sure we don’t,” Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said. “And that's what we're not doing.”
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