President Trump and Coronavirus Task Force provide update, Tuesday, April 21 | USA TODAY

The Senate reached a deal on a $484 billion stimulus package Tuesday afternoon, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo met with President Donald Trump at the White House after some fiery exchanges over their respective handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

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The stimulus deal senators agreed to, much of it aimed at boosting small businesses, will supplement the $2 trillion legislation passed last month. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hailed it as a "bipartisan agreement."
Cuomo has repeatedly chastised the president for asking governors to lead the struggle against the outbreak without enough federal resources. Trump responded this week by tweeting the governor should "spend more time 'doing' and less time 'complaining.' "

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66 comments

  1. It’s been a month. Why aren’t citizens getting a second stimulus check. Our bills don’t just happen once every 2 months.

    1. The whole world is going through this economic drought. Here we are still fighting each other. Let’s set aside our political views for now. Team up and invest on finding a cure!! Not a vaccine that was manufactured in China please!!

    1. @Mr Hawkhawk no i am not. Hell no , and i dont know or care the entire swamp of congress needs to be drained Republican or Democrat are both 2 sides to the same 7 headed dragon

  2. The question and answer period of this update should frighten every American. Notice how the false narrative is presumed to truth by everyone in that room. Then that false narrative is projected upon the entire country. It takes a sharp ear to notice this manipulation that leads to delusion. Americans need to stop hitting the snooze button and wake up!

  3. Ritual press conferences that are designed to pull wool over the populations eyes. Some how the world is driven by ignorant and Naive people who splurt out stats and figures that are always wrong. The media then pump out stats and figures and as the public are non the wiser.we don’t question any of these so called stats that then influence and govern our lives. All I’m saying is no way people in these press conferences have my best interest at heart. lol . WAKE UP and change the conversation

    1. Yesterday on a hot mike before the White House news conference it was admitted that the fatality rate was only 0.1 to 0.5

  4. IRS guy looks like he’s fighting with his face every time he tells a lie… Anyone notice that?.. Lol

  5. Will PPE shipments that hospitals have already paid for continue to be intercepted by the white house and rerouted to friendly governors? Does the President agree that this practice amounts to genocide by attrition?

    1. Maybe we should ask why china is still not releasing them out of the country? And wait, didn’t NY get a 2000 bed hospital ship and a couple hospitals built by the feds? Were they considered friendly?

    2. https://www.gofundme.com/f/mftqvs-support-my-mom
      My mom has medical problems which tests are not finish for this pandemic and she goes to work everyday because bills did not stop coming no matter about the pandemic , with this fund I want to help her so she can take a break from work and stay home with me because I love her . Please help me.

    3. @Brian Baff considering New York is the global epicenter, 2000 beds is almost nothing. That’s not even acknowledging the ventilator catastrophe in that state.

    1. @wowow wowoo eh, I pay 4.99 a month for it since my price was grandfathered in from when premium first started. $5 is a fraction of what I make an hour and I never get ads, unlimited downloads and I can have my phone screen off while still having a video/music play. so pretty worth it to me… unless you like ads haha

  6. third grader reading his first report to the class…that’s my POTUS…where is the aneurysm karma?

    1. Because they want the Sheep to believe that IT,s Okay…. go back to work worker bee you are disposable

    2. The masks should be used by those who are sick, everyone there has been tested. So no masks are needed

  7. Did you figure out yet that you’re dead I went through my Passover today just preparing and gearing up

    1. hopefully they open the country for business first and its not required. We cant spend our childrens future to get out of this mess.

    2. @bedlambikes our money, our children’s money will all go into politicians pocket, we’ll always be in debt!

  8. Where was the left oh that’s right china town and parades, eating ice cream, ?and let me think about this nothing gossip that’s all! Real Americans we are in house arrest because the blue government’s, education your self with will Dr. Rashid A BUTTAR, wake up before they Bill Gates and the Clinton’s one world Government, drones to watch citizens Americans, vaccinated for the world you included, watch the KGB 1984 or 1985 ! Brainwashed!

  9. mr trump: ” People don’t know about washing hands ”
    In what planet??? 🤔
    mr. trump. please talk about.
    mask😷 mask 😷mask 😷
    mask 😷mask 😷mask 😷
    restrictions orders..
    Mr. trump talk about:
    That right now are 2,587,819 People Infected in the Whole World 🌍 until today and from that number, US is in 1st place
    with almost a million with :
    820,273 active infected and running.; instead talking about reopen the country.🙄

  10. Reading these comments and watching all sides of the news makes me really sad to see how divided we are as a country.

  11. Thank you! Take care of the American workers first! Although we appreciate immigrant workers, but right now we need to protect the citizens that live here!

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