The coronavirus is projected to kill more than 100,000 Americans. It has shuttered the economy, torpedoed the stock market and rewritten the rules of normal life. But in this moment, Trump hasn't lost sight of the opportunity to advance his agenda
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is taking an old political adage to heart: Never let a crisis go to waste.
“This is a great time to bring it back,” Trump said of the resurrecting the tax break."Otherwise a lot of these restaurants are going to have a hard time reopening,” he said at White House briefing Wednesday. Story continuesBut Trump has notably used the crisis to remind Americans about his 2016 campaign promise to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. He argues a wall would help contain the coronavirus. In a tweet last month, he said the structure is “Going up fast” and “We need the Wall more than ever!”
But the president and his aides have also made a broader argument about the need for the country to retool regulations to encourage the manufacturing of medicine and other key safety equipment on American soil.
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