Congress has sped through more than $8 billion in supplemental funding to combat the coronavirus in a bipartisan manner. Bencjacobs reports
Nancy Pelosi signs the coronavirus emergency-response bill on Thursday. Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Images The stock market is plunging, hand sanitizer is vanishing from the shelves, and new travel restrictions are being imposed every day as the coronavirus continues to spread across the United States. However, even as the crisis mounts, there is one silver lining — Congress is actually working on the issue.
The legislation appropriates more than three times as much money as Trump originally requested. At the time, Senator Chuck Schumer derided Trump’s first proposal as “dangerously inadequate” to meet the crisis. Since then, he has not hesitated in his criticism of Trump, saying Thursday that “the president dithers and tells mistruths about the coronavirus outbreak.” Still, some of the partisan heat has drained from the debate.
Things were apparently more subdued when Pence briefed the House. Kildee said that there were questions like “‘commencement addresses’ followed by a question mark” after the details of the supplemental-funding bill were made public. However, some of that progress may have been rolled back by Trump’s interview with Sean Hannity on Wednesday, when he downplayed the virus and shared his own “hunch” about the disease.
But even while Democrats are carefully balancing the carrot and stick, perhaps their best surrogates on the topic — former public-health officials in Congress — have been measured in statements about the administration’s response.
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