+34Sen. Chuck Schumer says Democrats will resume negotiations with GOP on COVID-19 bill: “We have an obligation to get the details right, get them done quickly. That doesn’t mean blindly accepting a Republican-only bill. That was the bill we were given.”
that her husband, John Bessler, received positive coronavirus test results Monday morning. "He is exhausted and sick but a very strong and resilient person," she wrote."I love my husband so very much and not being able to be there at the hospital by his side is one of the hardest things about this disease.
" Bessler waited five days for the test results, Klobuchar said on a press call with a vote-by-mail advocacy group. The Minnesota senator said they have not seen either other for 14 days, so she is not taking a test or self-quarantining.Eight days into the White House's 15-day guidelines to slow the spread of the coronavirus, President Donald Trump appears to signal that the measures taken to flatten the curve -- and possibly extending them -- could be worse than the virus itself. The president tweeted around midnight in all caps:"WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!"experts hail the effectiveness of the guidelines at slowing the spread of the disease, some conservatives argue that the economic impacts of COVID-19 have become too severe. The president fired off a number of retweets Monday morning supporting the idea that the economic costs of extending the strict social distancing guidance beyond the fifteen-day period could outweigh the public health benefit of continuing., meanwhile, said on NBC:"I want America to understand -- this week, it's going to get bad. And we really need to come together as a nation ... So we really, really need everyone to stay at home." Over the weekend, the president provided little indication of what he plans to do at the end of the 15-day period when questioned about it at two press briefings.On Saturday, he would only say,"We have to see what the result is" at the end of the 15 days:"We want to flatten that out and we're going to see what the result is." Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, March 21, 2020, in Washington. Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, March 21, 2020, in Washington.State of the stimulus package: Negotiations still underway, senator tests positive for COVID-19 Lawmakers and Trump administration officials were unable to come to an agreement Sunday night on the nearly
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