President Trump with Coronavirus Task Force Briefing

President Trump and the Coronavirus Task Force held a briefing from the Rose Garden on the federal government’s response to the pandemic. The president announced a $25 billion dollar aid package agreed to by the Treasury Department and the airline industry in order to help airlines that have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. President Trump also spoke at length on the World Health Organization, saying that he has directed his administration to halt funding while they investigate the organization “to assess the World Health Organization’s role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus.” While discussing reopening the economy, the president said he will be speaking with all 50 governors, “authorizing each individual governor of each individual state to implement a reopening…of their state in a time and of a manner that’s most appropriate", later saying that the federal government will be watching, and that they "will hold the governors accountable.” close