Here is how developments unfolded on Tuesday.
"FEMA says, 'we're sending 400 ventilators.' Really? What am I going to do with 400 ventilators when I need 30,000?" Cuomo said."You pick the 26,000 people who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators." At Monday night's briefing, ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl asked the president if he's worried about the virus spreading unabated if the restrictions are lifted.
The president also predicted"there will be tremendous death" from shutting down the economy and job losses,"probably" more than the disease would cause. "The clock has run out, the buzzer is sounded, the hour for bargaining as though this were business as usual has expired," McConnell said. "I got a call a little while ago. I guess they're getting closer. Should go quickly and must go quickly," Trump said."It's not really a choice. Don't have a choice. They have to make a deal."House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled her own massive economic stimulus proposal, the Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act, Monday afternoon on Capitol Hill, in case the Senate bill fails.Pelosi outlined her options forward on CNBC this morning.
White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow talks with reporters about economic impacts of the coronavirus, outside the White House, March 24, 2020."We will take another look at the possibility of targeting areas that are safe enough. We have to do this with the assent and help of the health specialists. No question about that.
"I don't want to be specific, that's logical," Kudlow told me but the added jokingly"You got some old codgers who are pretty healthy too."