US President Donald Trump, right, and Vice President Mike Pence speak after a Fox News virtual town hall meeting from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on March 24, 2020. Picture: MANDEL NGAN / AFP
“I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter,” said Trump. Easter is on April 12 – 19 days away. Health experts have advised the measures as the foundation for preventing the easily transmitted, potentially fatal illness from multiplying uncontrollably.But he made clear that he thinks the response has been blown out of proportion, saying “we lose thousands and thousands of people a year to the flu. We don’t turn the country off.”
Republicans and Democrats have been wrangling on the bill for several days but news that they were nearing a deal sent battered stock prices on Wall Street soaring.
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