9 Apr 2020
Trump: We are much closer to getting our country back to where it was
Trump is crossing the wires and has said, "we are much closer to getting our country back to where it was."
Key comments
- Trump says in may we will be receiving almost 300 million new face masks.
- Trump says CDC will release guidance later Wednesday to ensure critical infrastructure workers can do their jobs after being exposed to the virus.
- Trump says we can do phase 4 coronavirus relief legislation later, we do not have time for partisan games.
- Trump says he learned about the gravity of the coronavirus shortly before closing off flights from China.
- Trump says we have to be on the downslope of the virus to open the country, would be nice to do it with a big bang.
- Trump says he will rely very heavily on health experts for that decision.
- Trump says we will have a very good chance of beating original projections on number of coronavirus deaths in US.
More to come
Wall Street ended in the green
Markets overnight were performing o the bid and reversing yesterday sell-off as optimism picks wit investors seeing a light at the end of the channel. More on that here: Wall Street Close: US benchmarks U-turn, DJIA +780