Coronavirus Special Report: Evening update, 3/16

By Shawn Zeller and Evan Campbell

Posted March 16, 2020 at 4:56pm

This episode of Coronavirus Special Report rounds up all the policy news of the day including President Donald Trump’s latest remarks, the stimulus package and what the nation’s hospitals and health care workers say they need.

Show Notes:

Road ahead: COVID-19 stimulus still behind FISA on Senate schedule
Airlines seek $58 billion in aid for business lost to pandemic
Supreme Court delays arguments for the first outbreak since Spanish flu
Census delays outreach due to coronavirus concerns

Spring breakers — Congressional Hits and Misses

Members of the House Freedom Caucus conduct a news conference to say they will not support the DHS funding bill in its current form, in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall on Friday.

House GOP rejects bipartisan Senate bill to end DHS shutdown

House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Sam Graves, R-Mo., is the latest senior House Republican to announce his departure.

Transportation Chair Graves will retire after 26 years in House

Sources: White House to propose 20 percent cut to NIH funding

President Donald Trump attends the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon at the Capitol on March 17. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

‘Impulsive and emotional’: Trump tosses traditional wartime presidency blueprint

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters in the Capitol on Tuesday as he returns from the Senate floor to his office.

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