President Trump Declares Coronavirus Outbreak a National Emergency
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We ran the numbers: There are 4008 news articles covering this topic. 28% (1113) are left leaning, 55% (2223) center, 17% (672) right leaning.
On Friday, President Trump declared the coronavirus pandemic as a national emergency, freeing up almost $50 billion in federal assistance to state and local governments that are overwhelmed by the spread of the virus. While left-leaning articles highlight that Trump has been hesitating to declare the outbreak a national emergency, right-leaning articles highlight that business executives are ready to partner with the government to conduct coronavirus testing.
The Washington Post published a left-leaning article reporting that President Trump has been hesitating to declare the coronavirus outbreak a national emergency for fear of looking weak. The article notes that Trump’s reluctance to claim executive power in this grave crisis when he has in less dire circumstances shows that his administration is confused in their response to the outbreak.
A centrist article by NPR reports that markets rose after Trump spoke in the White House Rose Garden, assuring anxious Americans that soon it would be easy for people showing symptoms to get tested and described a surge in test production. Trump thanked Google for creating a website, but Google warned that its life sciences division known as Verily, was only in the “early stages” of rolling a website in California’s Bay Area.
Townhall published a right-leaning article highlighting that business executives from Walgreens, Walmart, Quest Diagnostics, CVS, Target, and Roche Diagnostics stated that they are ready to partner with the federal government to conduct testing for the coronavirus. However, officials and President Trump are warning against testing if individuals do not have symptoms.
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