Trump denies COVID-19 funds to Planned Parenthood
The Trump administration has acted to ensure that no funds from the new Paycheck Protection Program, set up to assist small businesses battered by COVID-19, will go to Planned Parenthood.
President Trump announces temporary shutdown of all immigration to United States
President Donald Trump announced late Monday evening that he intends to issue an executive order temporarily banning immigration to the United States.
Trump pulls WHO funding, says organization ‘must be held accountable’
President Donald Trump made it official Tuesday that the administration was halting money to the World Health Organization, the international body that said in January that COVID-19 could not be spread by human-to-human contact, and praised China’s response to the virus.
With hydroxychloroquine, a heavy dose of conspiracy theory
Conspiracy theorists who oppose Trump claim he has a financial motive in hyping the drug to fight COVID-19. Fauci’s detractors assert that has pumped the brakes on using the drug as part of a globalist agenda, possibly directed by Bill Gates.
Testing boost puts US at No. 1 for coronavirus cases
President Donald Trump on Thursday credited enhanced testing for the fact that the United States now has the most confirmed cases of coronavirus in the world — surpassing China, where the pandemic originated.
Trump on record unemployment numbers: U.S. has to ‘get back to work’
With the U.S. surpassing 1,000 deaths and nearing 81,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, many health officials said an April 12 reopening would be too early. But Trump reiterated during his press briefing late Thursday afternoon that the country can’t stay closed for long.
President Trump, Gov. Scott diverging on coronavirus shutdown rhetoric
While President Donald Trump said he is preparing to ease the U.S. economy back to health at the end of the month, Gov. Phil Scott on Monday said he expects to keep Vermont’s economy under lockdown for months to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Trump to seek $500 billion in direct payments to Americans as states struggle to find right response to COVID-19
Saying that “in a sense” he is “a wartime president,” President Donald Trump wants Congress to approve $500 billion in new spending to send money directly to American households reeling from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Frenier: President Trump’s payroll relief plan
Suspending the payroll tax can happen in a matter of days — no new government administrators are needed, no new regulations, no paperwork. The process is already in place. Just suspend it.
Trump suspends travel from Europe, offers financial aid for coronavirus
President Donald Trump announced the United States will suspend travel from most of Europe for 30 days beginning Friday to help halt the spread of the coronavirus.
Trump’s EPA makes big changes to rule banning ‘secret science,’ Obama-era officials rage
Former EPA Chief Scott Pruitt in 2018 proposed reversing the practice of relying on secretive data in crafting rules. Conservatives have-long lambasted such studies, noting that such “secret science” has been used to craft billions of dollars worth of environmental regulations.