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special report now reported, Tom Goes Way are coming on the air at this hour with breaking news.
The White House Corona Virus Task Force is about to hold the briefing.
The president at the podium.
Let's listen in a lot of things going on, we're gonna be going over the hill and a lot of meetings and from the financial.
This is a medical situation out of financial situation financial.
That was moving along very nicely.
I wanna thank you for being here and update you on the progress we've made after a week of extraordinary mobilization, you know, war against the virus.
Governors, mayors, businesses, charities and citizens were all working with urgency and speed toward one common goal which is saving American lives.
We're in communication with foreign countries.
It's now at 148 foreign countries.
Can you believe that?
100.
You talk about a spread, you talk about a a violent spread 148 countries, not even believable.
There's been a week of national action and of great national solidarity.
People are getting along.
We're getting along with Republicans and Democrats, independence and liberals and conservatives.
And actually, it's a very nice thing to say.
We're all one beautiful big American family, and that's taking place right now.
Last night I approved a major disaster declaration for the state of New York.
I worked very closely with Governor Cuomo and is the first time in our nation's history that a president's used the Stafford act to declare a major disaster in response to a public health crisis never happened before.
I'm considering other areas where we may or may not be doing that and working very closely with Gavin Newsom, governor of California and others.
We may be doing the same thing, depending on their needs, thinning or what they're asking for.
It's been unprecedented action in New York, and we've had a tremendous federal response all over the country, and I want to thank all the people in the federal government and obviously in the state, governments and local governments.
We are working hard, everybody is working hard and the people standing alongside of me, a working very hard that I can tell you.
We've also reached agreements with Canada and Mexico on new travel rules at our northern and southern borders.
Toe hold the entry of the Chinese virus well, continuing trade and commerce.
And we've had very good talks I've with Prime Minister Trudeau.
And today, this morning with President Lopez Obrador.
We talked about joint measures that we're taking to prevent the spread of the virus in our countries and to temporarily suspend non essential travel.
Uh, we had a great conversation this morning.
President of Mexico, and our close cooperation with Mexico and Canada will keep our people healthy, keep their people healthy, keep everybody safe.
Yesterday had a call with 12,000 small businesses, representatives of these businesses.
That's the engine of our country.
People don't realize that, you know, you read all about the big ones.
But the small business when you add them up together is really the engine economic engine of our country.
And I assured them that my administration is doing everything within its very considerable considerable power, frankly, to support them and their employees.
Nobody's ever done what we've done.
Likewise, I had calls during the week with all sorts of representatives and systems like the hospital system.
We spoke to many of the hospital systems throughout the country, nurses and doctors representatives representing hundreds of thousands of nurses and doctors, airlines and cruise ship companies.
The Business Roundtable, which was fully attended.
And it's all of the top CEOs of of our country and beyond.
Frankly, the businessmen of really these the world world styled businessmen, these air businessman that control the biggest companies in the world.
Many of them have taken hits, and many of them are just going forward That they got their businesses have been, have been great.
Some have been very badly affected.
Some haven't been affected it all, and frankly, some are doing very well.
They continue to do very well.
It's, uh, Wal Mart as an example, has been really helpful to us.
Doug McMillon, that of Wal Mart really helpful to us.
And I guess I assumed that doing pretty well because people is certainly buying by more than even a clip at Christmas by substantial numbers.
Pretty amazing, but they're doing incredibly.
They put on tremendous extra staff.
You don't have empty shelves.
A lot of things have happened that a very good restaurants, fastfood executives, grocery stores, all retailers, literally all of them, uh, in groups, and we spoke with the G seven leaders at length as you know you probably know about that.
Spoke to many of the governor spoke to almost all of the governors of conference calls and many of the governor's individually and very importantly, the religious leaders.
We had a great conversation yesterday, the vice president and myself, with the religious leaders of of our country, many of the religious leaders, and we've had a number of them during the course of the last two weeks, actually.
But yesterday we had Avery very significant call with the religious leaders of our country.
I signed legislation providing American workers with paid sick leave and paid family medical leave at no cost to employers and free testing for those who need it.
The testing's going very well, and the admiral will speak to that along with Tony, were working quickly to pass additional legislation that will provide massive relief to small businesses and affected industries and give direct payments to our great workers and hard working American families has never been anything like we're doing on the hill right now.
They're negotiating.
Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, the roll up there, Kevin McCarthy and Nancy Pelosi.
They're all negotiating and everybody's working hard and they want to get to, Ah, a solution.
That's the right solution.
I think we're getting very close.
We've also announced that we've moved Tax day from April 15th July 15th which is a big deal, giving businesses and individuals extra time to file and pay without interest or penalty.
So we moved the date way back on, so it'll be July 15th instead of your traditional April 15th.
And very importantly, uh, you will have a lot of time, but you're not gonna have interest penalties or any kind of penalties.
By filing at that later Date Hut announced that foreclosures and evictions air suspended for single family home owners with F H A insured mortgages for the next 60 days.
And our great head of HUD, Who's with us today?
Ben Carson's gonna say a few words in a moment.
The Department of Education will not enforce standardized testing, which is another big deal requirements for students and elementary through high school for the current school year.
Not fair to do that.
So waving that, I would imagine it's probably the first time ever that's been way.
But I think it's only fair to the students and to the parents of the students.
It is also waving interest and other things that we're discussing right now on federally held student loans and directed that borrowers be allowed to suspend their student loan payments without penalty for at least 60 days.
And we'll be talking about student loans out the students.
They're under a great burden right now, so we will be talking about that further.
But where we're waving during the 60 day period, various elements and very important elements on student loans.
Big subject.
I signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act, as you all know, giving us powerful new authorities to help states, cities and hospitals procure needed supplies.
There's been a clear call to action to the private sector on the call is made right here.
It's been a really pretty amazing what's happened with the private sector.
There, really, in a six year, I think, which has responded in full force, helping to produce and supply much needed masks, swabs, sanitizers, ventilators and everything else is there's a move on that's incredible right now and by way of example, Haynes.
Everybody knows Haynes, great company great consumer cotton products company is retrofitting its manufacturing capabilities in large sections of their plans to produce masks.
And there in that process right now, then, in my direction, the FDA has taken rapid steps to make these items available for medical use.
Right now, being most excitingly to me is what the FDA has done in order to get possibly a very successful numbers, not just one or two number of therapeutics medicines that can help help people that are already sick, help people not get sick.
And obviously you know about the vaccine.
And Tony will discuss that a little bit later, but the vaccine is moving along.
But this is something that right now for right now this is what we really it's incredible.
And what the FDA has done and Dr Stephen Hahn was highly respected.
Came is a just a highly respected man.
He's been fantastic.
He's only been here for a couple of months, and he's, uh, he's gotten thrown into the swim of it, and he's really standing up.
But the FDA has really moved the mountains.
I said it this morning that move mountains to get approvals on things that, uh, maybe work will find out very soon, and we'll take along an example of the here.
No, Ricard, which is, uh, this is really an example where we'll repurpose ing alcohol.
They went out and repurpose their alcohol production capabilities in Arkansas, Kentucky, Texas and West Virginia to make hand sanitizer.
That's a big difference.
And they've been unbelievable.
They really have for no record.
Their first delivery will be on Tuesday.
It's going to go to various states, gonna start, I think, in New York, and they're gonna work their way around.
They're making a tremendous amount of hand sanitizer in a very high level, too.
By the way, we've activated the National Response Coordination Center to a Level one.
The highest level is the nerve center of all of our government response to crisis and its coordinating very closely with our nation's governors, our nation's governors.
Many of you were at the call yesterday with the governors, and, uh, I think you can see the relationship.
And we've had numerous calls with governors, by the way.
But the relationships are pretty amazing.
They like their loving what we're doing, and tthe e coordination between the federal government and the governor's states and even local has been pretty incredible FEMA administrator Pete Gaynor, who's with us will soon be providing you with an update on the center's operations.
And FEMA's been incredible.
We got them involved last week, very much involved, another involved nationwide.
We've dramatically expanded telehealth so Americans can see a doctor without leaving home something which more and more people are using.
And now they're really using it.
And now the ones that are using it are loving it.
And I think we're gonna change the way our country functions medically and probably in other ways because of what's going on right now.
This will reduce the chance of infection and preserve hospital capacity, so it sells a lot of problems.
Every American has a role to play in defending our nation from this invisible, horrible enemy.
It really is.
It's an invisible enemy, and we will be successful, very successful, hopefully very much sooner than people would even think.
So we say stay at home and save lives.
It is a time of shared national sacrifice, but it's also a time to treasure our loved ones and to take stock of what is most important our faith, our families, our neighbors and our great country, and I want to thank all of you.
Uh, the incredible people of our country, the citizens of our country that what you've done and the way you're responding has just been a very special something that we will never forget that the history books will never forget.
Then we're gonna have a great victory.
We're gonna be celebrating a great victory, and they're not too distant future.
And I just want to thank everybody.
And now I'll introduce our vice president, Mike Pence's led the task force.
And I will tell you this he has not slept much.
Maybe a tiny bit, maybe a little bit, but not much.
And, uh, he's done an incredible job, Mike.
Thank you.
Please.
Uh, good afternoon, all on.
Thank you, Mr President.
The White House Corona Virus Task Force met today.
We briefed the president on our latest recommendations to continue a two presidents direction and to lead not a whole of government approach, but the whole of America approach.
You just heard.
The president described one inspiring story after another the way the American people are responding the way American businesses are responding religious communities across this country.
The American people are coming together.
They're responding with common sense, compassion and generosity.
People are heeding the advice of state and local authorities, and tens of millions of Americans are putting into practice 15 days to slow the spread.
We are way are officially a Mr President six days into ar 15 days.
And as we look all across this country, Um, while we strongly support the decisions that governors in states where we have significant outbreak have taken, we encourage every American to listen to those state and local authorities For every American.
This is what you can do to make a difference over the next week and a few days to protect your health.
Protect your family's help.
But most especially slow the spread and the potential for the Corona virus to impact the most vulnerable, as the president said, we've been, we've almost been overwhelmed At the outpouring of support from American businesses, the president spoke yesterday, toe thousands of small businesses.
We spoke to manufacturers yesterday and in fact, the president indicated the FDA, in record time, just approved one manufacturer that would be producing millions of surgical masks in a matter of weeks for the American people thief pastors we spoke to way want to thank all the religious leaders from every community of faith in the country.
Making the hard choice to suspend service is toe have online service is even while those ministries air continuing to support food banks and come alongside of the most vulnerable.
And, of course, the chorus of prayers that is coming up from communities of faith around the country is making the difference that it always has in the life of this nation.
One thing the president and I promise, was to remind people that on the the weekends that you're not in the pews, it's still the good.
It's still a good idea if you can, to go ahead and make that donation, because all the ministries are continuing to play a vital role in our communities, and we encourage your continued support.
The president and I are grateful that the American people are listening to state and local authorities and putting into practice all of all of the recommendations in the president's Corona virus guidelines.
And, uh, as you will hear in just a few moments from Admiral Gua, um, testing is expanding rapidly across the United States of America.
State run drive throughs are expanding across the country.
And, as you will hear detail this morning now more than 195,000 Americans and Maur who had been symptomatic have been tested.
That number does not include county hospitals or or healthcare labs around the nation, some 15,000 in number and among the number of the Maur than 195,000 that have been tested.
It's important to remember that only 19,343 at this moment have tested positive for the Corona virus.
We want to.
We continue to urge state on local health authorities to contact FEMA for all the latest developments and innovations in testing.
But we want to remind Americans, as Dr Fauci will emphasize in a moment, If you don't have symptoms, don't do a test.
It is another way that the American people can make sure that we're preserving.
The resource is that our health care workers need to minister and to support those who are dealing with the Corona virus and other illnesses in a moment.
Peter Gaynor will detail the efforts at FEMA since the president's National Emergency Declaration we have FEMA in the lead stood up the National Response Coordination Center, as the president said, and we are working closely, literally hour by hour through FEMA processing requests from Tate states Most impacted, like New York, Washington state in California on will continue to work very, very closely with those states through the very traditional means of federal emergency management.
At FEMA, Secretary Carson will describe decisive actions the president alluded to to bring foreclosure relief to Americans and on the subject of supplies.
In a moment, you will hear of not only the progress that we're making on testing, but on Monday will be detail ing for the American people the progress that we're making on the president's strategy of procuring more personal protective equipment and medical supplies, allocating them through the system of FEMA and continuing to urge conservation by Americans.
In fact, I'm pleased to report to the president today that HHS just placed a poor on order for hundreds of millions of N 95 mass that will be being made available to healthcare providers across the country.
On behalf of the president, we do renew our call for Americans to postpone elective medical procedures, including dental service, is.
And remember, this is another way that you're going to make sure that medical supplies air available because by postponing elected medical procedures, you're freeing up medical supplies for those dealing with the Corona virus.
As president mentioned, our team is on Capitol Hill as we speak, working with members of Congress in both political parties.
They're making progress, by all accounts, on a bipartisan bill they worked late into the night last night started early this morning, and we're working to pass that legislation on Monday in both the House and the Senate.
And on a personal note.
Many of you may have been made aware that a member of my staff has tested positive for the Corona virus.
We learned of that late yesterday.
I am pleased to report that he's doing well.
He had mild, cold like symptoms for about a day and 1/2 has not been to the White House since Monday.
Neither the president nor I had direct contact with that staff person.
We worked immediately with White House physician and the CDC.
We've done all contact tracing, and while the White House doctor has indicated that he has no reason to believe that I was exposed and no need to be tested, given the unique position that I have is vice president and as leader of the White House Corona Virus Task Force.
Both I and my wife will be tested for the Corona virus later this afternoon.
Let me say again how grateful the president and I are that every American has acted on the president's Corona virus Guidelines were six days into 15 days.
That, as Dr Fauci may well reflect in a moment, is an opportunity for us here on the foot holes of this epidemic curve in our country to literally lower the impact in our nation and save lives.
Every American can do their part to slow the spread, and we encourage you each to continue to do that, is the president says Often remember, we're all in this together.
And also remember that that for most Americans, the risk of serious illness from the Corona virus remains low.
The reason we want to put into practice the president's Corona virus guidelines is because no American would want inadvertently exposed someone who is vulnerable.
A senior with a serious underlying health condition to the Corona virus with a potential threat.
I did hear one store this morning.
Was president about a senior named Jennifer.
Would she actually?
Is that the life care center in Kirkland, Washington?
She is not only a grandmother.
She is a great, great grandmother.
90 years young, and she tested positive for the Corona virus on March 6.
But by all accounts, she's doing well.
She wanted America.
No, there is hope and her strength and her enthusiasm.
It's truly an inspiration to the nation.
As the president said many times, we're gonna get through this and come out stronger than ever before.
And we'll get through this as Americans together.
Thank you, Mr President.
Very much.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr President.
Mr.
Vice President.
A CZ I told you earlier last week we're in the process and or effectively transitioning to large scale testing by leveraging all the components of the American healthcare system.
When we started, it was CDC only then it was the state public health laboratories.
Now we're transitioning into the mainstream of American testing with many of the companies that the president invited in the Rose Garden just a week ago.
So currently 91 public health laboratories, state public health laboratories, or up and running in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico.
This is our curve, and I want to be very clear about this that this Onley accounts for CDC, state public health laboratories and the laboratories that are members of the American Clinical Laboratory Association.
These are the main reference laboratories Lab, Core Quest, Mayo Air up by a Reference Labs and Sonic Healthcare.
It does not account for the well over 25,000 hospital based labs, many of which are doing testing, for whom we will get data this week to give you an overall roll up.
As you can see, over 195,000 people in America have completed their testing.
That means test plus results.
This does not count the people whose test are in process, and as you see this curve is going, it will continue to rise dramatically over the next period of time.
So again, this is utilizing all the components of the Great American health care system, the state and local public health laboratories, the hospital system, which is not represented here, and the main reference laboratories now I do want to make it clear that although testing is becoming more available and Dr Fauci will definitely emphasizes more, there are priorities for testing.
And clearly everyone across the country should understand that those hospitalized are in an I C U or a priority for testing symptomatic health care workers.
For obvious reasons, we want to make sure that they their help is preserved and that they are not going to spread to those who may be seriously ill symptomatic people in long term care facilities.
As the vice president is highlighted, we've said many times elderly in our society have a much higher mortality rate.
Much higher serious complication rate symptomatic individuals over 65 symptomatic individuals who have underlying conditions like chronic heart disease or liver disease or other types of frying diseases.
Patients in public health investigations.
And there are local priorities around the country, particularly health care workers for testing.
And Dr Fauci is gonna emphasize this about the types of people who may not be to be tested.
Testing is going well, it's ramping up, but we should still have priorities.
Finally, I want to talk about the community based testing sites.
I know they're popular now because there's now an acronym, which I'm sure the vice president doesn't appreciate C, B, T s or CBT sites.
We talked about these earlier in the week, and I wanted to emphasize again that these are state managed in locally executed.
The federal government is there to provide support, nohow blue plant blueprints on how to do this.
But these air really springing up at dozens and dozens of sites all over the country adapted to the local needs somewhere, drive through summer, walk up.
Some are geared to health care workers and emergency responders.
So again, what we see in the upcoming week is this curve will continue to increase.
Is testing becomes more widely available as the great American health care industry continues to increase the availability of tests and the throughput of those tests.
Thank you very much, Mr President.
Mr.
Vice President, What I wanna do just over the next minute or so is maybe connect some of the dots, The things that you've heard today first, the status of the dynamics of the of the outbreak.
I mean, you all know the numbers.
You've seen them.
We have widespread infection, but to varying degrees throughout the country.
So, for example, when you talk about the kinds of mitigation issues that we have put forth and have emphasized, just as I mentioned the other day, there are two dynamic forces that are going on at the same time you're having the natural course of an outbreak trying to peek at a high level.
And then you have the mitigation strategies which are aimed at dampening that.
We've mentioned that multiple times we often get asked, How do you know you're having an effect?
Because there are two things that are going on at the same time, they may be confounding.
Well, I can tell you for sure, from a public health standpoint and experience with other outbreaks, we know we are clearly having an effect.
But we can't quantitative for you accurately now because, looking forward, you'll know what the impact of the rate of this steep inclines will be.
So that's why we're gonna come back to you every day and keep you up to date about that, getting with regard to the disproportionate of the response.
Everyone is right here.
I'll get the open up the vice president's book, What is permission?
This is a baseline for everyone, in other words, throughout the country.
But then there will be areas, and you've heard them.
It's Washington State, California, New York City, in which the dynamics of the outbreak of clearly different and much more robust if you want to use that word.
And that's the reason why we've seen the mitigation ratcheted up in that regard.
And again, hopefully, I have confidence it will happen.
You will see the impact on that next.
Getting to test it.
You saw the numbers with testing.
Remember, there was always an issue with testing.
I think we're getting to the solution that everybody in the country is looking for.
But I want to emphasize one thing that Abuja mentioned is that not every single person in the United States needs to get tested.
He gave you the priorities.
I don't want to repeat them.
But let me tell you one of the unintended consequences of individuals who don't need to get tested that flood the desire to get tested currently, and I hope we'll be able to change it and make it much less reliable on pee pees When you go in and get tested, you're consuming personal protective equipment, masks and gowns.
Those are high priority for the health care workers who were taking pair of people who have cook a Corona virus disease.
So what we don't want to do is to have a situation where we will.
We do have disparities and availability of pee pees now and we're working hard to correct that.
But currently today we want to make sure that the people who are taking care of people with Corona virus disease do not endanger themselves because they don't have the personal protective equipment.
And then finally, one last thing was just mentioned.
The surgeon general has been pushing this.
Please put off cancel elective medical and surgical procedures.
You don't want to not ever do them.
But for the time being, don't do them because they also not only consume personal protective equipment, they may also consume some of the things like ventilators that you might need.
So let's pull in this together and we will get through it.
I promise you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I do.
Mr.
President.
Mr.
Vice President FEMA is now leading the federal operation of the federal response for all operations on behalf of the White House Corner Virus Task Force.
Whoever sees this whole of nation response, HHS will continue to provide their expert huh matter expertise on health.
And pursuant to the nationwide emergency declaration, FEMA, in coordination with HHS, is assisting state, local tribal territorial governments and their other eligible entities with health and safety emergency protective measures on behalf of American public.
As of yesterday, 50 states, the District of Columbia, five territories and one tribal working directly with FEMA under nationwide Emergency declaration for covert 19.
In just 24 hours, we've obligated $100 million to states, territories and tribes a little bit about supplies.
It is of the utmost importance that request for assistance, especially for critical supplies, get routed through proper channels as soon as possible.
We ask everyone to follow the normal procedures, the normal procedures female uses in a natural disaster.
There's no different procedure for the covert 19 pandemic, but remember, you can still order supplies from your Raylan vendors and buy it on the open market by it where you can find it.
We will reimburse you if you buy medical supplies from foreign sources it is reimbursable by America does not apply to the Stafford Act except for washing DC in Puerto Rico.
If you can't buy it on the open market maker requests through the famous system, request for assistance at the local and county level should first go to states from states to the regional FEMA offices and then from those officers right here in D.
C.
Where the National Response Coordination Center is open and running.
We're getting requests for Mass P p e swap sets, test site supports, ventilators, hospital capacity assessments and many more.
We are in lockstep with HHS to answer these requests, but we will do whatever is necessary to get states tribes, territories on others what they need.
And then finally, what we're doing here in Washington, see again, this is a whole of government response.
Like all emerges responses, most successful when it is locally executed, state managed and fairly support.
We can't say that enough.
On Thursday, our federal partners fully integrated with our National Coordination Response Coordination Center and additionally, all 10 female reaches across the country have been activated.
The FEMA reason administrators will continue to coordinate closely with governors state of mercy managers, state public health officials to determine the type of level sport needed to respond to this dynamic threat.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Appreciate it.
Thank you, Mr President.
And Mr Vice President, for your tireless leadership here.
I also want Thio.
Thank the Tele Task Force members who have been working around the clock on a very patriotic way to serve their fellow Americans.
You know, part of the American Dream is having a home, and sometimes people say, Well, what is housing have do it?
Health.
It has everything to do with help having a safe home.
And that is the reason that the President has authorized the immediate cessation of foreclosure and eviction proceedings for American citizens, single family forward mortgages as well as a reverse mortgages.
And as you know, uh, F h f A has also decided did the same thing for 60 days, and the C F P B is very happy with all this as well.
And it's really all about helping our people, recognizing that they're being severely impacted by the crow by virus.
And we've also asked the various service's of mortgage loans to exercise forbearance for anybody who's having difficulty, it is important if you're having difficulty toe actually contact the people who have made the law who established the market because it doesn't happen automatically.
What does happen automatically is that we cover all 8.5 million people in terms of the, uh, moratorium on foreclosures and evictions.
We want also, uh, for the Ph.
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Does not have authority to mandate that evictions can occur, but we are in contact with all the Ph is across the country and are petitioning Congress for the power to be able to actually enforce that.
But the fact of the matter is, most of the Ph.
A's are run by people who actually care about other people, so we really haven't seen much of a problem there.
We haven't seen much of a problem with four Barents on needing to try to force people to do it because they want to do people stepping up and saying, What can we do to be helpful?
A SZ Faras Housing Choice Vouchers Section eight is concerned the April vouchers will be sent out next week on May.
Vultures are already being worked on and We're also standing contact with all the stakeholders, the advocates for low income housing as well as other stakeholders to make sure, uh, that we're doing things that are most helpful to them.
And additionally, we've extended the deadlines for health care and multi family financial reporting requirements.
That's for over 20,000 multi family and health care bowers until April the 30th and that provides them with a lot more flexibility to deal with the issues that they're dealing with.
I also want to thank our F H J Commissioner Bryant Montgomery, as well as the F H F A director Mark Lab RIA, and I can't think manager, the director of the C F B, who've all worked tirelessly with us to make this happen.
What we're trying to do is bridge the gap, recognizing that it's a lot easier for us to take these measures and for Congress to take the measures that they're taking so that we don't destroy a very excellent system and have to start all over again.
So for those who are worried about the money that's being spent, if you don't spend the money and deal with this now, it's kind of cost a whole lot more to try to build all this up again.
And as was mentioned by the President, there's been a sense of unity that we haven't seen for a long time in this country.
And let's hope and pray that that unity last far beyond this crisis.
Thank you very much.
Questions.
If you've lost your job now or you're worried that you're gonna lose your job tomorrow, restaurant, something like that.
What do you want people to do immediately?
Second question, sir.
You heard from Vice President?
He's gonna be tested.
Are you taking a test?
Its last Saturday.
I told you just how you feel.
Great.
Okay, wait.
I think it more than I do people.
So for those people that have lost their job already or they're worried that they're about to lose it tomorrow, what do you want to do?
Right.
Well, what they do right now is keep receiving their paycheck and hopefully there, cos they're gonna be in a very strong position.
We want to keep everything together because we think we're gonna have a tremendous bounce back now.
Some people agree with that very strongly.
Some of our top economists they think we're gonna have a very once.
We solve the problem of that.
We're working on the medical problem.
Eso we want them to keep their jobs, Stay where you are, and we'll see what happens if they don't.
We have unemployment.
We have checks.
We have a lot of things happening, a lot of very positive things nobody has ever done.
No, this is working with Democrats, Republicans and Democrats and myself working together.
Nobody's ever done a package like this.
It's a great package, but ideally, we want them to be able to keep their jobs.
Keep the pay coming, and I think that's gonna happen.
Kelly.
Mr President, on your Defense Production Act power.
One of the features of that is that the federal government would be able to control the output, whether it's masks or ventilators, get it to the most areas of need and control the pricing to keep it at a market level.
So it's not price gouging.
One of the things we're hearing from governors can't find supplies and prices have gone up.
So you've talked about the actor, but you have not yet compelled any companies.
Why not?
Because we have so many companies making so many products, every product that you mentioned, plus ventilators and everything else.
We have car companies without having to use the active.
We don't have to use specifically.
We have the act to use in case we need it.
But we have so many things being made right now by so many, they've just stepped up.
In fact, Mike Pence and I were discussing it before.
We've never seen anything like it where they're volunteering.
We want to make masks like Keynes.
I brought that up is an example.
General Motors, I bring that up is another four.
It's all right, they're going, They're going to go in the open market.
We want them on the open market from a the standpoint of pricing because otherwise it's gonna be We could be very unfairly read them to the places in greatest need.
You're directing states and sometimes will be competing against states which I don't want and we'll drop out of the bidding.
We want the states to go first.
And you know what we're doing is we're helping states.
That's what we want to do.
Same thing with the testing we're helping States were helping states get to where they want.
And we've made tremendous progress in every aspect of this happens.
First happening today.
Well, it's happening fast right now and the governors are out there trying to get and if they are competing with us, we immediately drop that.
Please forgive me if I heard you wrong in the beginning, but you said something way.
We're going to be going over to the hill.
Are you going yourself?
People are, and I'll be staying here.
I'll be in the Oval Office and various other places in the wedding that matter.
You're asking Congress to essentially pass a series of legislation that's gonna act about $2 trillion.10 percent of GDP.
What do you say to members in both parts would say thistles Too expensive.
This is just too much to debate and get done in 48 hours or so.
And also have you spoken directly with Speaker Pelosi?
It Oh, but so I've spoken with I'm not going to say who I speak with, but I've spoken with directly or indirectly everybody many, many times.
We're doing very well.
I think the Democrats and the Republicans are gonna come up with a package.
It's going to be really something very special is gonna help people.
This is the first time there's ever been a case where you want people not to work.
It's always, you know, you want to create incentive to work.
We're creating, not an incentive not to work.
But the fact is, we're asking people not to work because of Wade.
Have to stay away from each other.
If we're gonna kill this horrible, hidden enemy, we have to stay away.
So there's never been a thing like this in the history of the world.
The other nations are doing similar things, some effectively, some not effectively doing similar things.
We are creating a package that's going to keep companies together, keep workers paid so they can live and sustained.
We'll see what the timing is.
The biggest thing we can do is get rid of the problem.
The problem is exactly what we know.
The medical problem.
We wanna have this whole incredible situation that it can start right away.
Not that all these companies break up.
All the workers are out of jobs, you can't put him back together and it would take years to put him back together because we have the greatest economy in the history of the world until we got hit by this problem and we can be back very, very quickly, and it's our intention to be back very, very quickly.
So we're doing a package the likes of which nobody has ever done before.
I'm obviously the one that has to approve the different things and the recommendations of the different things and, like buy backs is an example.
And stock buybacks.
I didn't like it the first time, and this time I'm saying you're not doing it.
I don't want money to be used for that.
I want money to be useful workers and for opening businesses keeping businesses, not buybacks.
And, well, I wouldn't.
I am strongly recommending a buyback exclusion.
You cannot buy back your stock.
You can't take a $1,000,000,000 of the money and just buy back your stock and increase the value.
Please object of Mass.
The vice president announced HHS was ordering hundreds of millions of them.
Was that order just place today?
How is that gonna be distributed in one?
Doctors and nurses expect actually received those masks.
HHS is completing 1/2 a $1,000,000,000 or been 95 masks.
And all of this is being coordinated through FEMA on dhe, and we're we're responding specifically to state requests where the needs arrive.
As Dr Fauci said, We want to make sure the people that are providing healthcare service is two people who may have contractor Corona virus have the protection to keep themselves and their families healthy.
But I want to emphasize the This supply of so called n 95 masks has been vastly increased in the country because the president insisted that we extend liability protection to industrial masks.
But all the experts told us early on was that industrial mass that air used on construction sites presents very familiar with from his past life, um, are perfectly appropriate to protect health care workers from respiratory illness, but they didn't have the liability protection because they weren't created for hospitals.
We worked in with leaders in both parties.
We added that protection that runs through 2024 that now the industrial and 95 mess can be purchased by hospitals purchased by states purchased by HHS and distribute through our system.
So we're making those available the supply has been, as I said, vastly increased, and it's another step forward in a bipartisan accomplishment.
And we're continuing to use all the kind of creative means of American industry to make sure that we're leaning into this effort in that, that we do whatever it takes to make sure that our health care providers have the protective equipment here from doctors and nurses about the shortage.
When exactly can they expect to receive these masks?
Well, let me let let me let Pete gain or speak to that because FEMA will be.
HHS is now fully integrated into FEMA, and so, as the request come in, But obviously, as I'm sure the administrator will say, they're being prioritized to those areas with the highest need.
So within the National Coordination Center, we have a supply chain task force on basic sense.
We try to identify the universe of what's out there, so whether we hope it the federal level, we hold it in the private sector and then match that up with demand and asking people to be creative.
We're asking again, this is a shared responsibility.
We're asking locals and states to do your share locally try tickle a bit burn off of us and then we'll prioritize.
Those scarce resource is against.
Every single governor across the country is looking for the exact same thing, so there's a balance.
But were examined the entire supply chain to make sure that we make masks.
Start coming in there.
They're they're out there now.
So again, we want a match.
We want to get out of the middle way.
So we're trying to match supplies with the man.
So that's what we're doing right now.
It's happening today.
It's a taken expected that there the matching plan is there's a range of requests across the country and we're trying to match those again.
Supply and demand every day.
Wait a lot of already come in, I have to tell you the be throwing away of the mask, being in private business, the throwing away the mask right away, they're throwing away.
And when you hear 55 million masks world, I'm saying 55 million.
How could it possibly be such a number?
And they say, Oh, that's just a small fraction of what we need And I said, Why are we sanitizing mess?
You know, you look at the mess.
I've looked at all the different masks.
Some don't let themselves t doing that, I think.
But many do.
And I said, why aren't we have very good, uh, liquids for doing this, Sanitizing the masks.
And that's something they're they're starting to do more and more This sanitizing the masks.
And I don't have anybody would like to speak to that.
CDC guidance is about how you can minimize the use of masks by different things that you could do with testing.
And when you have masked how you might reuse them, which ones you can reuse them.
Do you think there's a solution to this other than buying more master, I need to change how they're using them.
Yeah, well, there are a couple of things.
One, for example.
We are moving towards getting testing where you don't have tohave pp.
I mean, I don't want it.
I'm not gonna tell you the day is gonna be there, but it's gonna be a swab that you could stick in the nose of the person who is either infected or not.
But that person doesn't need peopIe a.
The person who is administering the test so if you could do a self administer test, stick it in a vial handed over, you don't need a mask it on tpp.
That's one of the things we're trying to do.
I would have liked that much and one other.
This is another story about great American industry way.
The president and I literally heard directly from Apple that they're donating two million industrial masks to this effort around the country and working with our administration to distribute those.
And it might be a good opportunity for us to renew our call for as the president and I delivered this message to businesses yesterday.
Manufacturers and small businesses.
It's a great time to go to your store room.
And if you have in 95 masks, if you've got 100 of them, if you've got 10,000 of them is toe load him up.
Drive him over to your local hospital.
That story is literally happening all over the country on now, with more Americans that stepping away from elective surgery, including elective dental care, wording dentists around America to look at their supplies of and 95 mess and make those available to her hospitals.
But The great news is, is the president said.
The American people are all doing this now, so allow me to say, on behalf of the president, Thank you for you all are doing today, but we want to encourage people in business encourage people in dentistry in particular.
Look at those supplies of in 95 Max.
Pack up his many, as you could spare, drop him off at your local hospital.
Be a great service to the country.
I just want to read you some of what some of the doctors on the front lines of this crisis are saying, Doctor, be the ones that are saying that things were the other doctors who are talking about the shortage of medical supplies that they were facing Doctor Phase of Bucks in Kentucky says there's absolutely no way protect myself a surgeon and president.
California says we're at war with no ammo.
Dr.
Mel and Illinois says if this is a wartime situation than now is the time to act.
I know you're talking now about increasing production that so many of these facilities to get the masks out, but given that this is one of the wealthiest, most powerful countries in the world.
Should this even be happening?
Shouldn't this have been resolved?
The way I look at it, so many administrations proceeded May.
For the most part, they did very little in terms of what you're talking about.
This is unprecedented.
Could speak to Tony.
You could speak to anybody.
This is unprecedented or just about unprecedented.
As time goes by we're seeing it's really at a level that nobody would have believed nobody would have thought possible, that this could happen.
And we are making much of this stuff now and much of its being delivered now.
We've also gotten tremendous reviews from a lot of people that can't believe how fast it's coming when I hear they have an order of 55 million masks and that's just one order.
That's one order out of many and that there are many millions of masks be on that and I keep saying, how is it possible to use so much?
But that's the way it is, and part of that is because they use a mask for a short period of time and they throw it.
The fact is that we are doing a tremendous amount.
We started with very few masks.
We had some, but nothing for an event like this.
And now we're making tens of millions of masks and other things.
And I think it's unprecedented what we've done and what we're doing.
And many doctors and I've read many, many doctors.
They can't believe the great job that we've done.
Kelly did you have been more than merely administration.
Learn about this about this virus.
Well, if you remember, I was the one that I was the one that close the country down.
I was the window closed, you know, Right that or you don't say it too much certain Land, Sea.
And then but, uh, I just read an article yesterday.
I just read an article yesterday that by closing the country down so early, very early. 00:52:51