Coronavirus response: Lawmakers prefer helping workers but Trump pushes tax cuts
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By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON-With the coronavirus threat to the U.S., including the U.S. economy, spreading, lawmakers and GOP President Donald Trump went in two very different directions about how to help people nationwide.

For lawmakers, especially the House's ruling Democrats, the chief object was to make sure there are ways to both minimize the circumstances that could put people at risk of illness and to push Trump regime officials to provide preventive measures immediately while working on developing anti-virus vaccines.

They also want to make sure people who lose their jobs as businesses shut down due to sick workers, lack of supplies, lack of customers, or all of the above, get at least 12 weeks of paid sick leave, immediately, due to the emergency. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., introduced that emergency sick leave legislation on March 9.

"We want to be sure from the standpoint of being tested, if need be, that there be no cost to the families," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., explained at a press conference....

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