Coronavirus Special Report: Evening update, 4/13

By Jason Dick and Evan Campbell

Posted April 13, 2020 at 6:02pm

In tonight’s podcast, we tell you about the increased friction between the federal and state governments, how COVID-19 is causing the deficit to balloon and its impact on one immigration policy.

Show Notes:

House’s expected return delayed to May 4
Another lesson about context: Biden and young voters in 2020
Coronavirus pushes annual deficit forecasts toward $4 trillion
Supreme Court to hear oral arguments by telephone in May
‘Dreamers’ in health care sector help save COVID patients while in legal limbo

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)

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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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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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