President Donald Trump suggested Monday he had qualms about extending the current 15-day suggested shutdown as his officials warned about the deepening coronavirus crisis and administration officials and congressional leaders struggled to complete a nearly $2 trillion US economic rescue package.
President Donald Trump suggested Monday he had qualms about extending the current 15-day suggested shutdown as his officials warned about the deepening coronavirus crisis and administration officials and congressional leaders struggled to complete a nearly $2 trillion US economic rescue package.
“I didn’t expect to be starting off my week with such a dire message for America,” Surgeon General Jerome Adams said on CBS This Morning, as he warned the numbers will get worse this week. “Things are going to get worse before they get better. We really need everyone to understand this … and lean into what they can do to flatten the curve.”
Yet only hours before the surgeon general’s dire warning, Trump suggested that the remedies may be more harmful than the outbreak in a tweet that contradicted the advice of medical experts across the nation.
“We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself,” he wrote, adding: “At the end of the 15 day period, we will make a decision as to which way we want to go!”
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Officials in New York, Washington and California say there is an urgent need for medical supplies because of the COVID-19 pandemic and are demanding the Trump administration do more to secure them. 4:36
Trump officials and congressional leaders, meanwhile, were to resume talks Monday after working through the night on the massive economic rescue plan. Democr