New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo outlines a plan to suspend New York City subway service for four hours every night to disinfect the trains
Trump adviser: Unemployment numbers "as startling as anything we’ve seen since the Great Depression"White House senior adviser Kevin Hassett speaks about reopening the country, during a roundtable with industry executives, in the State Dinning Room of the White House, on April 29, in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP
Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett continued to project what his colleagues have referred to as “doom and gloom” regarding the economy following another release of“You know we’ve been pretty frank with the American people that shutting down of our economy was going to give us a few months of really, really startling data.
and “rocking” by July, Hassett said it’s possible and depends on the virus, but he’s planning for every scenario. “If the virus is mostly gone, then everybody will get back to their normal lives and the baseball stadiums will be filled with fans and so on. And if the virus is still lingering or even staying at about the level we see right now, then activity will stay lower. And my instructions, the economic team’s instructions from the President are to have a plan for every eventuality and that’s what we’re doing,” he said.
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