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I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily 202 for Thursday, March 19.

In today's news, President Trump gambles his re-election on what could be $2 trillion in coronavirus bailouts.

Jared Kushner has a potential conflict of interest as he exerts more control

over the government's response to the pandemic.

And while European governments over the government's response to the pandemic.

And while European governments rush to stock up on critically needed ventilators,

states and hospitals here say they've been told they're on their own.

But first, the big idea.

A senior scientist at a government biomedical research laboratory has been thwarted in his efforts to conduct experiments

on possible treatments for the new coronavirus because of the Trump

administration's restrictions on research with human fetal tissue.

The scientist, Kim Hasenkrug, an immunologist at the National Institutes of Health,

who works in their Rocky Mountain Lab in Montana,

has been appealing for nearly a month now to top who works in their Rocky Mountain lab in Montana,

has been appealing for nearly a month now

to top NIH officials,

arguing that this pandemic warrants an exemption

to a ban imposed last year prohibiting government researchers from using tissue from abortions in their work.

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