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Democrats Criticize Trump Administration's Coronavirus Response

Katherine Gypson

   CAPITOL HILL - U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday the United
   States has the coronavirus is "very well under control" within its
   borders, even as his administration is asking U.S. lawmakers for $2.5
   billion in emergency funding to address the problem.
   Congressional Democrats say the Trump administration has failed to
   respond quickly to the spread of the virus, including personally
   spreading false information when Trump said coronavirus would stop in
   April when the weather grew warmer. The global health crisis is yet
   another battle in the ongoing war between Trump and Capitol Hill after
   Democrats failed to remove the president in a Senate impeachment trial
   earlier this year.
   Trump said Tuesday during a press conference in New Delhi that while
   the U.S. is in good shape in terms of containment, "We do business with
   a lot of other countries, we take care of, we work with other
   countries, we want other countries to be happy, healthy and well."
   The president's latest reassurances about the virus came after a
   difficult day on the U.S. stock market. The Dow Jones had its sharpest
   daily decline since 2018, amid growing global fears about the spread of
   the coronavirus. The United States has 14 confirmed cases of the virus,
   according to the Center for Disease Control.

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