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As a result of the Trump Administration’s efforts, the Paycheck Protection Program is effectively providing a lifeline to America’s small businesses and their employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.
* Since the launch of the Paycheck Protection Program, SBA has processed over 3.8 million loans for more than half a trillion dollars of economic support in less than one month.
* Nearly 500,000 of the PPP loans were made by lenders with less than $1 billion in assets and non-bank lenders.
* President Trump secured an additional $320 billion in funding to ensure a second round of PPP relief would be accessible for America’s small businesses. In the second round of the Paycheck Protection Program:
+ 2.2 million loans have been processed, worth more than $175 billion.
+ The average loan is $79,000, exhibiting that PPP is truly aiding the smallest of small businesses.
* Please click here for more information: PPP Report: Second Round ([link removed][UNIQID])


Additionally, SBA will begin accepting new Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) ([link removed][UNIQID]) and EIDL Advance applications to provide relief to U.S. agricultural businesses. Eligible agricultural businesses may apply for the Loan Advance here ([link removed][UNIQID]) .

Today, the President departs Washington, D.C., en route to Phoenix, AZ at 10:20am ET. The President participates in a Roundtable Discussion on Supporting Native Americans at 12:00pm MST and later participates in a tour and delivers remarks at Honeywell International Inc. at 1:15pm ET. The President departs Phoenix, AZ en route to Washington, D.C. at 2:20pm MST and arrives back to the White House at 9:30pm ET.

Additional Guidance (as of 5.3, 5:00pm):
· HHS - COVID-19 Funding Available to Minority, Rural and Socially Vulnerable Communities for Linkages to Services, Information and Education (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* HHS - HHS Begins Distribution of Payments to Hospitals with High COVID-19 Admissions, Rural Providers (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )

· HHS-SAMHSA - Intimate Partner Violence and Child Abuse Considerations During COVID-19 (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· FDA - 12 Tips for Grocery Shopping During the Pandemic (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· FDA - FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for Potential COVID-19 Treatment (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· FDA - May 1 Daily Roundup (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· FDA - Insight into FDA’s Revised Policy on Antibody Tests: Prioritizing Access and Accuracy (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· NIH - Study to determine incidence of novel coronavirus infection in U.S. children begins (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· DHS - Weekly Update: DHS Response to COVID-19 (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· DHS-FEMA - Coronavirus Pandemic Response: PPE Packages for Nursing Homes (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· DHS-FEMA - FEMA Administrator Approves 30 States for Crisis Counseling (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· DHS-FEMA - FEMA Administrator Authority to Approve Crisis Counseling during Coronavirus (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· DHS-FEMA - FEMA Approves Crisis Counseling Assistance for COVID-19 Response to Four States (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· DHS-FEMA - FEMA Announces Supplemental Funding Through CARES Act (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* DHS-FEMA - Coronavirus Pandemic: FEMA Assistance for Tribal Governments (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* DHS-FEMA - Coordinated Efforts Bring Battelle Units to National Capital Region (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )

· Treasury - Treasury Announces Marketable Borrowing Estimates (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· Treasury/SBA - Joint Statement by Administrator Jovita Carranza and Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin on the Success of the Paycheck Protection Program (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· SBA - SBA to Make Economic Injury Disaster Loans Available to U.S. Agricultural Businesses Impacted by COVID-19 Pandemic (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· USDA - Secretary Perdue Statement on Economic Injury Disaster Loans Being Available to U.S. Agricultural Businesses Impacted by COVID-19 Pandemic (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· USDA - USDA Approves Nevada to Accept SNAP Benefits Online (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· DOL - U.S. Department of Labor Issues Additional Guidance About Short-Time Compensation Program Provisions (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· HUD - Pandemic Underscores Need for HUD's Foster Youth Housing Program, Department Allocates New Funding to Six States (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· DOD - Michigan Guardsmen Support COVID-19 Detection Effort (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· DOD - Seabees Build Medical Facility to Support COVID-19 Efforts in Guam (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
· DOD - Mobility Airmen Transport COVID-19 Equipment to Ghana (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* DOD - U.S. Must Prepare for Current, Future Pandemics (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* DOD - Combined U.S.-German COVID-19 Efforts Make a Difference (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* DOD - Transport Isolation System the Latest in DOD Medical Transport Advancement (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )

· State - The U.S. Is Leading the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Developing a Vaccine (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* State - Update: The United States is Continuing to Lead the Response to COVID-19 (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* CDC - COVID-19 Considerations for Cleaner Air Shelters and Cleaner Air Spaces to Protect the Public from Wildfire Smoke (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* CDC - COVID-19 Forecasts (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* CDC - Operational Considerations for Personal Protective Equipment in the Context of Global Supply Shortages for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: non-US Healthcare Settings (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )

· CDC - COVID-19 Contact Tracing Training Guidance and Resources (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* CMS - CMS Announces Independent Commission to Address Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* CMS - May 1 News Alert (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* USDA - USDA Approves Minnesota to Accept SNAP Benefits Online (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* DOL - COVID-19 Guidance for Restaurants & Beverage Vendors Offering Takeout or Curbside Pickup (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* DOL - U.S. Department of Labor Invites the Public to Participate in National Online Dialogue on Opening America’s Workplaces Again (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* DOL - U.S. Department of Labor Issues New COBRA Notices for Employee Benefit Plans (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* HUD - HUD Allocates Second Wave of Relief Funds, over Half a Billion Dollars to Help Protect Low-Income Americans (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* VA - VA participating in drug, plasma trials in fight against COVID-19 (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )
* VA - VA is protecting and serving all of America (Click here ([link removed][UNIQID]) )




MESSAGE OF THE DAY | President Trump Spurs Unprecedented Private Sector Action to Combat Coronavirus
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Under President Trump’s leadership, companies across the country have stepped up to help with response efforts.

ALL-OF-AMERICA RESPONSE
* Under President Trump’s leadership, companies across America are repurposing their facilities, reallocating resources, and lending help to response efforts.
* Today, President Trump will travel to Phoenix, Arizona to see Honeywell’s face mask production firsthand.
+ Honeywell has repurposed their Phoenix Aerospace facility, which is expected to produce more than 20 million ([link removed][UNIQID]) N95 masks in total.
+ Honeywell is hiring an additional 500 ([link removed][UNIQID]) workers in Phoenix for the operations.

MOBILIZING PRIVATE SECTOR RESOURCES
* President Trump has harnessed public-private partnerships to rapidly increase testing capacity and secure needed medical supplies.
* President Trump has effectively leveraged the Defense Production Action to spur private sector action.
* Last week, President Trump announced ([link removed][UNIQID]) action under the DPA to help manufacture 40 million swabs to expand testing.
* President Trump secured a deal with 3M to produce ([link removed][UNIQID]) 166.5 million masks in the coming months.
* President Trump leveraged the DPA to spur General Motors to ramp up ventilator production, which are now rolling off the assembly line at their Kokomo, IN facility ([link removed][UNIQID]) .

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