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Washington Post congressional reporter. Formerly AP. (Header photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

Washington, DC
Joined April 2009

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  2. Asked about possibility of tax breaks of some kind to respond to virus, Trump says they’re mostly looking to Fed, but will be proposing major middle class tax cut later this year (the Tax Cut 2.0 package we’ve been expecting and reporting on)

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  3. “The markets will all come back, the markets are very strong,” Trump says

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  4. Re exchange with Trump on Fauci, re-upping this thread from yesterday with deets on how Fauci described the situation to House members:

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  5. Trump getting pressed on his use of the word “hoax,” insists it was about Dems trying to pin blame on him, not about coronavirus itself. “With respect to Democrats and what they were saying, that was a hoax,” Trump says.

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  6. Asked about potential additional travel restrictions Trump says they are “looking very strongly” at the southern border

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  7. “Very dishonest question ... he was never muzzled” Trump says in response to question about Fauci Fauci then takes podium and says “I have not been muzzled at all”

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  8. “From day one this is what we predicted, this is what we expected,” Azar says after offering condolences over first US death, while saying overall risks remain low

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  9. Pence announces new travel restrictions: Banning any foreign national who’s visited Iran, and advising Americans not to travel to affected regions in Italy and South Korea

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  10. Trump is asking everyone not to do anything to “incite a panic”

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  11. Trump touts “Most aggressive action in modern history” to attack the spread of coronavirus

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    AP alerts first Coronavirus death.

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    15 hours ago

    Jeff Sessions takes the 1st big step Tuesday in rewriting the end of his career. But one figure looms large in the likely 3/31 runoff. “Senator Shelby has asked the president to stay out, and I think the president wants to win the seat.”

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  17. Feb 28

    Finally, WH legislative affairs director Eric Ueland denied on the way out of briefing that VP's office is vetting anyone's comments. "Nobody is being shut down.”

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  18. Feb 28

    Also Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) (h/t ):

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  19. Feb 28

    Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) on Fauci:

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  20. Feb 28

    Here is how Rep Anna Eshoo explained the Fauci sitch:

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