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US Senator Charles Schumer announced updated impact numbers related to the bipartisan "Corona 3" legislation that sailed through the Senate with a vote of 96-0, passed the House and was signed by President Trump. Schumer is now able to announce more detailed numbers in addition to the $40 billion he announced moments after the bill first passed the Senate on Wednesday, March 25.
Soon after President Trump first uttered the phrase "Chinese virus," Representative Grace Meng got a call from her parents, who had read about it in the newspaper. Had Mr. Trump, they wondered, really given the coronavirus that corrosive moniker?
Yes, she told them, indeed he had. And no, despite being a member of Congress and her parents' continued pleas, there was nothing she could do to make him stop.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee – which funds all federal agencies and programs – issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Senate's bipartisan $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic (CARES) Act.
QUEENS, NY – U.S. Reps. Grace Meng (D-Queens) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Queens/Bronx) announced today that they sent a letter to President Trump calling on him to prioritize the transfer of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ventilators from the national stockpile to Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York.
"We entreat you to promptly deploy immediate necessary resources to decrease the intensity and mitigate long-term harm of COVID-19," Meng and Ocasio-Cortez wrote. "We urge you to address the needs required at Elmhurst Hospital."
A Queens lawmaker recently introduced a resolution in Congress following the increase in hate crimes and anti-Asian rhetoric surrounding COVID-19.
Congresswoman Grace Meng's resolution recognized that public officials and law enforcement had the responsibility to "condemn and denounce any and all anti-Asian sentiment in any form." According to Meng's office, a recent study revealed that between February 9, 2020, and March, 7 2020, there were more than 400 reported cases of anti-Asian discrimination related to COVID-19 in the United States.
(CNN) Rep. Grace Meng described feeling powerless when she received a call on Friday from a nurse begging for more medical support at Elmhurst hospital in Queens -- one of the hospitals reeling from the virus' rapid spread in the state.
"I got this call at about the same time that we were on or near the floor of the House debating this bill, getting ready to vote on this bill," the New York Democrat told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Friday, referencing the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package the chamber had passed earlier Friday.