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The Trump administration and congressional leaders are closing in on a $400 billion-plus deal that could pass the Senate as soon as Monday to renew funding for a small business loan program that recently ran out of money, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and top Democratic leaders said Sunday.The deal would also boost spending for hospitals…

President Trump on Saturday heralded gains made against the coronavirus pandemic and the relatively low mortality rate in the U.S. compared to other hard-hit countries. “While we mourn the tragic loss of life — and you can’t mourn it any stronger than we are mourning it — the United States has produced dramatically better health…

April 17, 2020 | 2:18pm | Updated April 17, 2020 | 4:03pm President Trump tore into his presumptive Democratic presidential rival Joe Biden on Friday, saying the “incompetence” of former President Barack Obama and his then-vice president caused 17,000 people to die from swine flu. “Biden/Obama were a disaster in handling the H1N1 Swine Flu.…

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Donald Trump and his coronavirus taskforce have unveiled a set of federal guidelines for reopening the economy, which comprise three phases but ultimately defer to governors on when and how to return their states to normal. ‘A prolonged lockdown combined with a forced economic depression would inflict an immense and wide-ranging toll on public health,’…