WE HAVE A DEAL

WE HAVE A DEAL

Senate leaders finally came to an agreement on a massive stimulus bill?

To help deal with the economic fallout?

From the coronavirus outbreak.... it expected to be voted on today with the house taking it up later this week.

At the white house?

President trump suggesting?

An aggressive tim?line for getting americans back to work.... laura podesta reports.

After days of back and forth, the senate will vote on a roughly tw?

Trillio?

Dollar stimulus bill today.

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Sen.

Mitch mcconnell (?ky)/ senate majority leader) at last we have a deal(nat?

Sen.

Chuck schumer (?ny)/ senate minority leader) on the largest rescue package in american history the deal includes 500 billion in loans for big businesses.

Nearly 400 billion in grants and loans for small businesses.

And a one time cash payment for most working americans.

(nat president trump) "by that easter, that beautiful easter day" at the white house yesterday, president trump suggested getting people back to work in less than three weeks.

(sotãpresident trump) "our decision will be based on hard facts and data as to the opening."

One of the top medical experts on the coronavirus task force suggested it was a flexible timeline.

(sotãdr. anthony fauci/ director, national institutes of health)"no one is going to want to tone down things when you see what's going in a place like new york city" new york has become the epicenter of the outbreak in america& with the infection rate doubling every three days.

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Andrew cuomo (?ny)) "new york is the canary in the coal mine" governor andrew cuomo warned other states to prepare for the worst, incensed the trump administratio n isn doing enough to provide medical supplies.

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Andrew cuomo (?ny))"you pick the 26,000 people who are gonna die!"

Speaking to fox news, the president repeated his theory on why keeping the economy shut is worse than the coronavirus.

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President trump)you are going to have suicides by thousands.

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Jb pritkzer (?il))?i don think that he is listening to the scienc?

Democratic and republican governors say president trump should not rush americans back to work.

Laura podesta, cbs news