CNBC: Trump plans to declare national emergency over coronavirus pandemic

[USALiberal]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/13/trump-will-hold-a-press-conference-at-3-pm-et-to-discuss-coronavirus-response.html


President Trump plans to declare a national emergency over the coronavirus pandemic, administration officials told NBC News.

The president has scheduled a 3 p.m. ET press conference Friday at the White House.

French President Emmanuel Macron said leaders of Group of 7 economic giant nations have “agreed to organize an extraordinary Leaders Summit by videoconference on Monday” on coronavirus.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the White House and Congress are nearing a deal that would provide stimulus to the U.S. economy.

President Donald Trump plans to declare a national emergency over the coronavirus pandemic, administration officials told NBC News.

The declaration would free up financial resources to assist Americans affected by the outbreak.

The president has scheduled a 3 p.m. ET news conference Friday at in the Rose Garden at the White House. He will be joined by Vice President Mike Pence, who is leading the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force.

The conference is set to occur shortly after Trump is scheduled to meet at the White House with major laboratory company executives about the response to the coronavirus outbreak.

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[gopiscrap]

1. betcha he wants to wait til the stock market closes

[sakabatou]

2. Oh, so NOW he does

when he should've done it weeks if not days ago! And where the hell are the testing kits the WHO gave us?!

[USALiberal]

3. I agree! nt

[cos dem]

4. I'm worried he's just going to use it as another opportunity for power-grab.

Emergency declarations are supposed to be about enabling resources to be deployed more easily to handle the actual emergency. But, when you hear orange idiot speak about it, he talks about the "extraordinary" powers he gets from an emergency declaration, things "nobody knows about". Hopefully the good stuff will happen in spite of dumbass, but be prepared for a lot of BS along with it.

Can we make it to 20 Jan 2021?

[42bambi]

5. We already know what he will say at his so called

press conference ... loud and clear ... I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING. I DON'T KNOW WHAT SHOULD BE DONE!!

[NBachers]

6. Money moving uphill; blue voters and states punished.

[smirkymonkey]

7. But I thought it was all just a big Democratic Hoax?