Trump says he's working on a payroll tax cut to help U.S. workers amid coronavirus outbreak
President Donald Trump on Monday said he will be meeting with Senate and House Republicans on Tuesday to discuss "a possible tax relief measure" to provide "a timely and effective response to the coronavirus."
"We are to be meeting with House Republicans, Mitch McConnell, and discussing a possible payroll tax cut or relief, substantial relief, very substantial relief," Trump said at a press briefing with coronavirus task force members. "This was something that we were thrown into and we're gonna handle it and we have been handling it very well," Trump said of the U.S. response to the outbreak, which has been rising in severity since December.On Monday morning, Health Secretary Alex Azar stressed in an interview on Fox News that the United States regards the situation with gravity, saying the coronavirus "is a very serious health problem. Nobody is trying to minimize that.
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