Dr. Brix speaking now. "We need every America to follow the guidelines"
Dr. Fauci "Two things" keeping the infection from coming in. Southern and Northern border closer
Fema is the lead agency for the national response.
listen to local authorities
Spoke with all 50 governors yesterday. (you should watch that video it was great)
Medical supplies. We are doing everything possible in expanding the supply.
Finding new alternatives to increase the supply of ventilators
1. found 10,000's that can be retrofitted
Construction companies donating N95 masks to hospitals is helping fill the need.
Follow the 15 day guidelines to slow the spread.
Are you using defense production act
Trump: Yes in some cases. mostly for masks.
are we now in a worst case scenario.
Trump: No it just helps states get the supplies.
No, these are just the hotspots. most of the country not impacted to the same degree.
Trump says we are paying people not to work. Who would have ever thought of that.
Trump wants money used for workers and to keep the company going....he doesn't want buybacks.
He and Sen. Schumer aren't far away from agreement.
?? on malaria drug???
Can we use it to prevent infection..
Dr. Fauci says no, it's too early
Trump says he
Dr. Fauci says you have to be careful without tested trials to get the real data.
Trump: I'm optimistic on the drug. We have order millions of units of the medical drug.
What the hell do you have to lose.
Trump is the optimist
Trump well it came from China and got out of control.
I have a good relationship with XI
???stock buybacks???
We want the money to go to workers and to keep companies afloat not have them buy back their stocks
on work travel DHS and SoS will work together.
Mexico says they won't take back 3rd party illegal immigrants.
SoS we are working with Mexico on this.
DHS 3rd party illegals will be sent back to their countries.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 SoS backhands that question away.
???on did Iran attack the US bases last week???
Trump ...don't answer that. We know a lot.
SoS private and military flights back.
??on Iran, relax sanctions???
SoS humanitarian aid is open to Iran. There are no sanctions on medical or humanitarian aid to Iran.
???is it okay for President to call your agency the
I know the President he respects the people that work in my department...in other words The President was joking...god people.
Press are defending China. traitors.
??when did we know??
China kept the information from us. This isn't a game folks.
Reporters need to report the truth. Cry more folks.
The press are idiots.
??? are we over-reacting
at worst 3.4% will die..is it worth it...???
Trump the entire world is agreeing with us.
Dr. Fauci it's false logic to compare this to car accidents.
I hate the press.
??How do you respond to the Mayor of NYC??
I'm not dealing with him, I'm dealing with the governor and he agrees with me.
DHS Wolfe.....quickly.
???checks to Americans is it enough or should we do more??
We will see. if not we will do another phase.
We want it so when we win this war companies can immediately come back.
We have a best case and worst case. We are prepared for whatever comes.
???gov are being outbid by federal gov??
Trump they are getting what they need
??? Labor dept not disclosing unemployment numbers???
Trump: I'll have to talk to them to see if that's true.
Trump the states can call us and we will drop our bid. We would rather have the states get it.
???missed the question something about testing supplies??
Usually it's because the lab people don't understand procedures
Pence 90+% are testing negative.
This is why we set up FEMA, so gov and states have a agencies to handle their questions and direct supplies.
Do not be afraid be vigilant.
The risk is low to most Americans
follow guidelines
You could infect others.
It will take all of us working together.
Trump says the companies are volunteering and he doesn't have to order them to increase production but he has ordered some companies to make masks and ventilators.
CEO said if we need ships to help people. Carnival will use their ships to help the people. Right now we don't need it.
I will but I will ask the companies.....but one is GM.
???does guidelines change due to asymptomatic people???
Dr. Fauci no it doesn't change. The guidelines will have the same effect to help you avoid infection
We are pretty much there....Press disagrees...Trump says he isn't seeing it.
??Should every America be tested??
Dr. Fauci: no
Trump: no
???What's the demand for testing and are we meeting it??
Dr. Fauci...right now the available is getting
Pence: many many more tests are being performed today than last week. 10,000's and 10,000's of more. hour by hour the tests are increasing.
Trump: just so you know for the 100th time. I inherited a broken system that we had to get rid of and invent a new system. It's almost fully in gear and can
End of press conference.
People at the PC conference today.
President Trump
VP Pence
SoS Pompeo
DHS Wolfe
HHS Azar
Dr. Fauci
Dr. Brix
some guy I don't know.
He thinks it will. Also spoke with Mitch
good conversation with Cryin chuck.
Department of education will not enforce standardize testing requirements this year for students in grade school thru high school
Waived temporarily all interest on Federal student loans
Sec Devos has directed federal lenders to all borrowers to suspend student loan payments without penalty for at least next 60 days. borrowers should contact their lenders.
Treasury department announced tax day is moving from Apr 15th to July 15th. extra time to file with no interest or penalties. If you have refunds or credits you want you can still file
working with Canada and Mexico closely.
Health officials are concerned about mass migration during this time(really now they worry)🙄
every week border agents encounter thousands of migrants.
To confront these public health degrees the CDC has decided to execute their under its authority under title 42 of us code
Working with mexico to implement new rules at ports on entry to suspend non essential travel
This has been a week of resolute action. We have seen people working together who were fighting each other before. It's a nice thing.
invoked defense production act and last night we put it into gear
It's a responsibility of the states but because of the magnitude the federal government is helping them a lot.
People now buying in slightly smaller quantities
Thanks to the spirit of the people we will win this war and we will win it.
SoS speaks
1. Wed Canada and US agreed to close the border to non essential travel as of midnight tonight reviewed after 30 days.
2. U.S and Mexico has agreed today to
on another note. State department issues a level 4 alert for global travel yesterday. This means all international travel by US citizens should be avoided. All Americans aboard who want to come home now is the time.
DHS Chad Wolfe up next.
Thanks President and VP for their leadership. Explains the early actions
Repeats points about closing borders with Canada and Mexico to non essential travel
All illegal aliens caught will be immediately returned to their country of origin. they don't pass go. They don't collect $200. Back they go. All of them.
Next up Sec Azar of HHS
We are talking about significant numbers here.
CBP facilities where never designed to hold large numbers of people nor protect them from a virus.
Dr. Brix up next ( we are just about at the place I started the thread so it's getting time to wrap this up.
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