White House to request emergency coronavirus funds

[riversedge]

Source: the hill





By Peter Sullivan - 02/24/20 11:48 AM EST


The White House is preparing to ask Congress for emergency funding to fight the coronavirus, a spokesman said Monday, but declined to say how much would be requested.

"We need some funding here to make sure that we protect all Americans,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said on Fox News.

..........................................

Democrats have been calling for the Trump administration to request additional funds, but officials had previously said they could shift money from other programs. As the virus spreads to more countries, the administration is now shifting to ask for funds.

Some news outlets reported the administration would ask for approximately $1 billion, .............

.......................
Adriane Casalotti, an official at the National Association of County and City Health Officials, said $1 billion would not be enough.

“By any measure, that would not be enough for a government-wide supplemental to make a meaningful impact,” Casalotti said. “Vaccine development alone needs way more than that.”..........................................

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/484340-white-house-to-request-emergency-coronavirus-funds

---

A billion seems low to adequately hit at this deadly virus.

Link to tweet

?s=20

Link to tweet

?s=20

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. This, *after* cutting the CDC's budget...

[bronxiteforever]

2. +1 trump gutted epidemic response teams for years.

[Mr.Bill]

14. The funding they want

should be tied to the restoration of all those funds.

[bronxiteforever]

16. +1 Can't repair the brain drain but it's a start.

[SergeStorms]

23. But, but...........THE WALL!

Trump will probably ask for $50 billion, then a month later cut the budget by 80%, then tell his brain dead MAGAts the big, beautiful wall is doing fantastically. Watch, it'll happen.

[DENVERPOPS]

24. Bravo VO

I was just going to say the same thing. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you

Trump and all his lackeys have been ignoring CDC's comments and recommendations for months now.

They have been screaming their heads off about the Virus, having run it thru their computer models, and they have been blowing the CDC off the entire time.

It was comforting to know that his tweet today told everyone about the virus is that everything is OK, no worries about the Corona Virus, etc etc etc

[Orrex]

3. How about diverting the funds for your idiotic wall, you dumb motherfucker?

I still can't decide if Trump's wall is a stupid monument to racism or a racist monument to stupidity.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. He probably thinks the wall will keep the virus out.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

15. Heretic!

How dare you ask Fat Donnie to sacrifice anything for the well-being of others? That would be the adult thing to do, and as we all know, the Stable Genius is anything but adult.

[atreides1]

21. Guess what?

I'll bet that's where the majority of this special request is going...to his idiotic "wall"!

If by "wall" you mean a secret bank account that he had Mnuchin and Mulvaney open up for him...

[ffr]

4. Keystone cops!

Pathetic!

[Lindsay]

6. A report I read

said the request could be up to $1 billion.

But we know how Trump hates spending taxpayer money on anything that doesn't directly benefit him.

[LaurenOlimina]

7. It's about the market...

He still doesn't know shit about this virus.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. What, the WALL can't keep out Corona? Tell Trump to steal from the Pentagon again /nt

[ancianita]

9. Then 45'll pass it along to useless contractors rather than the CDC or hospitals. He'll PR the U.S.

He's the human disaster insult added to pandemic injury.

[Scarsdale]

10. Get money from the Pentagon.

They seem to have plenty to spare. After all, they have already donated billions to tRump's wall.

[bluestarone]

11. If they pass ANY money bill it should be

FOR VIRUS related ONLY! CANNOT be used for anything else

[Tucker08087]

12. The House passed a bill for this before we were even aware of the Corona Virus

If Mitch would simply bring it to the floor and allow the Senate to vote, it would restore not only the funding, but also Obama’s multi-step plan to address pandemics.

[Miguelito Loveless]

13. Trump will them distribute half the money

to his businesses, then steal half for his border wall.

[Fiendish Thingy]

17. How about diverting some of the money Trump stole for the wall? Nt

[olddad65]

18. Trump will find a way to profit from this pandemic.

This fascist dictator would wipe out the entire population if he could make money on the deal.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Recommended for Ds to inform people far & wide; not an endorsement of tRump operations. . . . nt

[yaesu]

20. tRump already striped a bunch of protections to pay for his rich tax breaks, now he's crying to

House just to calm the markets & to blame the House for his greedy fuck ups.

[maxrandb]

22. We'll see if Dems have learned to play hardball

I'd give him funding, but stipulate that it comes from the $7B the DoD says they are diverting for a stupid border fence