Sunday shows – Talk shifts to reopening economy hit hard by coronavirus pandemic

by The Hill staff - 04/26/20 11:42 AM ET

Discussions on the Sunday morning political talk shows turned to the reopening of the U.S. economy, which has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

Administration officials as well as state governors weighed in on the topic.

President Trump’s remarks last week about using disinfectants as a treatment for coronavirus were also in the spotlight.

You can read The Hill’s complete coverage below.

Mnuchin: ‘You’re going to see the economy really bounce back in July, August, September’

By ZACK BUDRYK

“We are putting an unprecedented amount of fiscal relief into the economy,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said. “You’re seeing trillions of dollars that’s making its way into the economy and I think this is going to have a significant impact.”

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White House adviser: US economic outlook a ‘really grave situation’

By JUSTINE COLEMAN

White House senior adviser Kevin Hassett warned Sunday that the outlook for the U.S. economy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic is a “really grave situation,” and said that unemployment rates could reach levels seen during the Great Depression.

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Colorado governor defends lifting restrictions: We have to make the best decision based on ‘information we have’

By REBECCA KLAR

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) defended his decision to begin lifting coronavirus restriction in his state, saying it’s important to put in place sustainable social distancing practices to push ahead with coronavirus responses.

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New Jersey governor: ‘Several weeks away’ from phase one reopening

By REBECCA KLAR

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) said Sunday his state is still weeks away from entering the first phase of gradually reopening its economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Public health expert: US ‘near the end of the beginning’ of pandemic

By ZACK BUDRYK

Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said Sunday that the U.S. was likely at the “end of the beginning” of the coronavirus pandemic but said Vice President Pence’s prediction of reaching the end stages of the crisis by Memorial Day was overly optimistic.

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Whitmer, Hogan say emergency hotline calls rose after Trump disinfectant remarks

By JUSTINE COLEMAN

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said Sunday that emergency hotlines in their states saw increases in calls after President Trump suggested disinfectants be investigated as a treatment for COVID-19.

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Birx: ‘It bothers me’ Trump comments on injecting disinfectant ‘still in the news cycle’

By REBECCA KLAR

“I think we’re missing the bigger pieces of what we need to be doing as an American people to continue to protect one another,” Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said.

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Pelosi says Trump’s China travel ban wasn’t ‘this great moment’

By REBECCA KLAR

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested Sunday that the travel ban from China President Trump has repeatedly touted as a major step in stemming the spread of the coronavirus outbreak was not as effective as the White House claims.

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Abrams gives ‘no credit’ to Trump for criticism of Kemp: ‘He actually caused this challenge’

By REBECCA KLAR

“I give President Trump no credit he actually caused this challenge by tweeting for weeks that we should liberate our economies,” Stacey Abrams said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

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Klobuchar: Minnesota suffering from ‘lack of national strategy’ on coronavirus

By JUSTINE COLEMAN

“We can tune out this president’s rants about chugging bleach, but we can’t tune out the fact that we have a lack of protective equipment, that we do not have enough testing, that there is an absence of national leadership,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) told host George Stephanopoulos.

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