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President Donald Trump is tapping yet another group to advise him on when to re-open the economy: members of Congress.
The Trump administration is inviting a bipartisan crew of lawmakers to participate in a task force to address the central question of when the country should return to normal amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Today, President Donald J. Trump and members of his Administration hosted phone calls with Republican and Democrat Members of the House of Representatives and Senate serving on the Opening Up America Again Congressional Group. The President announced that he will soon provide guidance to America's Governors to determine their ability to reignite the economies in their respective States.
Rep. Andy Biggs, an Arizona Republican and chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, called technology to track who COVID-19-positive individuals were in contact with a form of spying and "totalitarianism."
PHOENIX – If social distancing guidelines continue to be observed, U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona would like to see nonessential businesses reopen as soon as possible.
"Allow retail shops to open up the way they normally would with social distancing you see in grocery stores… businesses are just dying on the vine. We need to take care of that," Biggs said Wednesday on KTAR News 92.3 FM's The Mike Broomhead Show.
PHOENIX – Three Arizonans were selected to serve on a bipartisan White House task force of Congress members that will focus on the nation's economic recovery from the coronavirus outbreak.
Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, Republican Sen. Martha McSally, and Republican Rep. Andy Biggs announced their participation Thursday.
Both of Arizona's senators and one of its House members will be part of a large, mostly Republican group advising President Donald Trump on how to restart the nation's economy.
The White House's Congressional Economic Recovery Task Force is part of the growing list of advisers offering suggestions on how to shift from quarantine to rebooting the economy without triggering a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
Several GOP lawmakers are clamoring for the great reopening of the American economy as the coronavirus pandemic continues to bring the nation to an economic standstill and the push to reopen the country intensifies from coast to coast.
GOPEN UP SESAME -- Calls are growing in the GOP to open up the economy and return the country to normal. While some Republicans are still expressing caution and emphasizing that restrictions need to be lifted gradually, others are being more aggressive in calling for an off-ramp. "It should have happened yesterday," said Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), who has pleaded his case in op-eds, letters and numerous texts and phone calls to the White House and GOP leadership. And Rep.
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs called for the country to quickly reopen the economy that has been hit by the COVID-19 outbreak.
This comes after the grim economic news that 17 million workers across the country, including 350,000 in Arizona, have lost their jobs during the pandemic.
Tweeting yesterday, Biggs wrote, "We can't afford to wait two more weeks to reopen the American economy."
President Donald Trump is itching to reopen the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic. And congressional Republicans are mostly giving him the green light — and in some cases, leaning on him to speed up.
As Trump alternately agonizes over when to push states to reopen and browbeats governors with questionable claims of his superior authority, GOP lawmakers are urging federal guidance that quickly restarts some industries and begins to roll back unprecedented closures of vast swaths of the United States.