Coronavirus Special Report: Evening update: 3/26

By Jason Dick and Evan Campbell

Posted March 26, 2020 at 6:19pm

Tonight: We unpack what’s in the massive stimulus bill passed by the Senate late Wednesday to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and what we can expect from the House on Friday. Then, we have a daily roundup of health policy news.

Show Notes:

Pelosi lays out Democrats’ priorities for next round of coronavirus legislation
Fed Chairman: The U.S. may be in a recession
Antitrust cops to speed collaboration reviews in COVID-19 fight
Investors managing $4.7 trillion urge firms to resist layoffs amid pandemic
JCT: Coronavirus aid bill to cut taxes by $591B over 10 years

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.

Photos of the week | March 23-27, 2026

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., arrives for her House Ethics Committee adjudicatory subcommittee hearing on Thursday. Her attorney, William Barzee, appears at right.

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