Republicans’ radical about-face on bailouts

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🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Phil Rucker on how Republicans are throwing out the political playbook by supporting a massive bailout for the economy. Chris Rowland on the search for a treatment for the coronavirus. And Min Joo Kim reports on how South Korea got testing right.

Trump’s $1 trillion stimulus package composed of bailouts and personal checks is gaining support from Republicans, a tactic the party has traditionally opposed.

As scientists race to find a treatment for the novel coronavirus, they’re looking at experimental drugs from past outbreaks.

How South Korea got testing right.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:04.9	Washington Post is Kolby.
0:07.0	Hi, it's Stephanie McCreement from the Washington Post.
0:13.2	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm Martin Powers.
0:18.8	It's Thursday, March 19.
0:23.3	Today Republicans change their tune on bailouts.
0:27.0	The race to develop a treatment for the coronavirus and how South Korea got testing rate.
0:35.8	I would like to begin by announcing some important developments in our war against the Chinese
0:42.6	virus.
0:45.6	By the middle of the week Trump started calling this a war.
0:49.6	He said America is fighting a silent enemy and that we should adopt a wartime posture
0:55.6	and he said in fact he considers himself to be a wartime president.
0:59.9	Yeah, I look at it.
1:00.9	I view it as a, in a sense, a wartime president.
1:04.2	I mean, that's what we're fighting.
1:05.7	It's a very tough situation here.
1:09.9	You have to do things.
1:10.9	You have to close parts of an economy that six weeks ago were the best they've ever
1:16.5	been.
1:17.5	We had the best economy we've ever had.
1:19.0	And then one day you have to close it down in order to defeat this enemy.
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