In contrast, Trump has recently tried to push the nation’s focus away from the virus and instead talk about stimulating the economic recovery. In March the president said, “I don’t take responsibility at all” for lagging coronavirus testing in the United States. All essential workers would receive child-care assistance and an unspecified pay boost, Biden has said. The official said Biden will stress that lives would have been saved if Trump had acted sooner. Biden would invoke the Defense Production Act to require manufacturers to churn out protective equipment domestically.

Source: Washington Post June 30, 2020 09:32 UTC