Trump Denied Responsibility for Slashing His Pandemic Team. Last Month He Was Bragging About Cuts.
President Donald Trump declares a national emergency due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in the Rose Garden of the White House on March 13, 2020 in Washington, DC.Oliver Contreras/CNP via Zuma “I just think that’s a nasty question.” That was Trump’s response when, at Friday afternoon’s coronavirus press conference, PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor pressed the president…
“No, I Don’t Take Responsibility at All”: Trump on His Botched Coronavirus Response
Evan Vucci/AP At a White House press conference on Friday, President Trump refused to take any responsibility for the federal government’s lackluster response to the novel coronavirus, an infectious disease that’s sickened at least 142,000 people and killed more than 5,000 worldwide. After explaining, with the help of several CEOs, that widespread testing would be rolled-out,…
House Republicans Tried to Capitalize on Coronavirus to Sneak Anti-Abortion Language Into Law
Nancy Pelosi( D-Calif.) makes a statement about the Coronavirus Response Act aid package in the Capitol on Friday, March 13th. Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Press As stock markets plummet businesses prepare for staff to work from home, and confirmed cases and deaths from the novel coronavirus continue to grow, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif)…
Total Isolation. No Testing. Communication Breakdown. Inside the Coronavirus Cruise Ship Evacuation.
Passengers from the Grand Princess exit a bus in Oakland.Jeff Chiu/AP After spending five days quarantined in their cabins aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship that carried 21 people infected with the coronavirus off the coast of San Francisco, passengers faced a harrowing bus journey to an Air Force base where chaos and confusion reigned.…
Empty Tables, Cancelled Reservations, Lost Shifts: Restaurants Scramble to Recalibrate
A waiter stands at a restaurant in Monterey Park, Calif., Thursday, March 12, 2020. Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP Amid the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurants are already taking a massive hit. In Seattle, an early hotspot for the spread of the infection in the United States, the prominent Tom Douglas Seattle Kitchen group announced it…
Joe Biden’s Coronavirus Speech Was Everything Trump’s Wasn’t
Matt Rourke/AP On Wednesday night, President Donald Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office and offered a series of false statements about the global coronavirus pandemic and his administration’s plan to stop it. The United States is “more prepared” than similarly afflicted countries. (No, it isn’t.) He would be blocking virtually all people and…