“Are you going to see some schools shut down? Probably,' Mick Mulvaney says. 'May you see impacts on public transportation? Sure. But we do this. We know how to handle this,'
as he and his supporters continued to downplay the threat and accuse Democrats and the news media of hyping the risk to weaken him politically.
He wouldn't say if the president is considering suspending tariffs on China but said the White House is not considering any"precipitous action right now." Recounting how he had gotten a note from a reporter asking what he's going to do to calm the markets, he said he might tell people to turn off their televisions."It is real? It absolutely is real," Mulvaney said while adding that 20 million Americans get the flu each year."This is not Ebola, OK? … It's not SARS, it's not MERS," he said, referring to Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, pointing to their high fatality rates.
"We took extraordinary steps four of five weeks ago. Why didn't you hear about it? What was going on four or five weeks ago? Impeachment!" Mulvaney said."And that's all the press wanted to talk about." "President Trump and his team have to stop blaming everyone but themselves, focus less on political rallies and more on solutions to combat the spread of coronavirus.”
On Fox News, host Sean Hannity opened his program Thursday night saying,"I can report the sky is absolutely falling. We're all doomed. The end is near. The apocalypse is imminent and you're going to die, all of you, in the next 48 hours and it's all President Trump's fault -- or at least that's what the media mob and the Democratic extreme radical Socialist Party would like you to think.
After introductions around the table, the president launched into a staunch defense of his administration's handling of coronavirus, while slamming the media and Democrats for bringing politics into the response."I know politics, and you know, politics is fine," Trump said."But when it comes time to talk about pandemics or whatever you may want to call it, you got to get away from politics.
Trump did not mention the stock market, which plunged for the fifth day in a row Friday, falling more than 800 points after the opening bell, but he said earlier in the week it"will recover."African-American supporters, including Terrence Williams, Angela Stanton and Diamond and Silk, pray with President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House, in Washington on Feb. 27, 2020.
While there are no confirmed cases in Florida so far, Pence scheduled a meeting in between the political events with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.House members on Friday morning assembled on Capitol Hill for a closed briefing on the novel coronavirus from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health , and other administration officials and federal health professionals.
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