Coronavirus Special Report: Evening update, 3/17

By Mary Ellen McIntire and Evan Campbell

Posted March 17, 2020 at 5:46pm

This episode rounds up all the coronavirus policy news that happened Tuesday, including the latest on Senate consideration of the recent House-passed stimulus bill, a larger stimulus bill in the works, updated virus testing numbers and more.

Show Notes:

Mnuchin: White House plan will inject $1 trillion into economy
Trump drops payroll tax cut, wants stimulus checks
Courts ask Congress for coronavirus response funds
Tuesday’s elections (mostly) continue amid coronavirus pandemic
Treasury, Fed take new actions to bolster lending during pandemic

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.

Podcasts