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America leads the world by quite some way in cases of the deadly virus‘This is unstoppable’: midwest braces for a Covid-19 surgeDr Deborah Birx: voice of scientific reason or apologist for Trump? Trump signs order for coronavirus reliefSign up to our First Thing newsletter 3.33pm BST House speaker Nancy Pelosi has appeared on CNN’s State of the Union. Like her Democrat colleague Chuck Schumer, she is unimpressed with Donald Trump’s executive actions to provide economic relief for Americans during the Covid.-19 pandemic.“Everything is left out,” she said of the actions ordered by Trump on Saturday night. “Assistance to the schools, feeding the hungry, helping people who are going to be evicted. He didn’t do a moratorium [on evictions] he just did a study, a look at a moratorium.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Trump’s executive actions: “Something’s wrong. Either the President doesn’t know what he’s talking about. … Or something’s very wrong here about meeting the needs of the American people at this time” #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/Id401eeMdc 3.16pm BST Chuck Schumer is followed on ABC’s This Week by White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow. He defended the president’s actions, saying they would help Americans struggling during the economic crisis caused by Covid-19.“[Trump’s actions] provide significant economic assistance,” he said. Continue reading…

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3.33pm BST

House speaker Nancy Pelosi has appeared on CNN’s State of the Union. Like her Democrat colleague Chuck Schumer, she is unimpressed with Donald Trump’s executive actions to provide economic relief for Americans during the Covid.-19 pandemic.

“Everything is left out,” she said of the actions ordered by Trump on Saturday night. “Assistance to the schools, feeding the hungry, helping people who are going to be evicted. He didn’t do a moratorium [on evictions] he just did a study, a look at a moratorium.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Trump’s executive actions: “Something’s wrong. Either the President doesn’t know what he’s talking about. … Or something’s very wrong here about meeting the needs of the American people at this time” #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/Id401eeMdc

3.16pm BST

Chuck Schumer is followed on ABC’s This Week by White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow. He defended the president’s actions, saying they would help Americans struggling during the economic crisis caused by Covid-19.

“[Trump’s actions] provide significant economic assistance,” he said.

Continue reading…