BREAKING: Trump will declare COVID-19 National Emergency

[brooklynite]

President Donald Trump plans to declare a national emergency on Friday over the coronavirus outbreak, invoking the Stafford Act to open the door to more federal aid for states and municipalities, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Trump is under increasing pressure to act as governors and mayors nationwide step up actions to mitigate the spread, closing schools and canceling public events. The president said he will hold a news conference at 3 p.m.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/coronavirus-can-live-in-patients-for-five-weeks-after-contagion

[warrior1]

1. should have done it a week ago or earlier

[C_U_L8R]

3. No shit.

Can we please replace this clown with someone who isn’t such an incompetent idiot ?? Is that too much to ask?

[empedocles]

2. Hope there are some checks and balances somewhere

[underpants]

4. Over a hoax?

Asking for a friend

[Dream Girl]

5. Not just a hoax but a Democrat hoax!

[sinkingfeeling]

6. What? Another national emergency? And this one's for a Trump-declared hoax.

[durablend]

7. Moving more money to build that wall?

"TO HELL WITH THE VIRUS THERE'S A CARAVAN COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[Brother Buzz]

8. The purse strings get yanked away from the short fingered vulgarian. Good.

[rockfordfile]

9. To late