Coronavirus updates: Trump declares national emergency; many schools close, events canceled
In a roller-coaster day of coronavirus-related events, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency Friday to provide disaster funding, speed up the U.S. response to the crisis and offer “maximum flexibility” to attack the problem..Trump, speaking from the White House Rose Garden, said the moves would free up $50 billion in additional disaster funding and would also allow the department of Health and Human Services to waive regulations and laws to deliver coronavirus […]
