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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.
PHOENIX – The nation's leading coronavirus policymaker should be out of the job as quickly as possible, U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona said Wednesday.
Immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci isn't a pandemic specialist, Biggs told KTAR News 92.3 FM's The Mike Broomhead Show.
"He has admitted two things that I think are critical: … he doesn't trust any of the [virus] models anymore because they're all proven to be unreliable and yet he's the guy that has basically relied on all those unreliable models and given us so many policies," Biggs said.
Republican Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs joined the Daily Caller's Stephanie Hamill to share his thoughts on restarting the American economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.
President Donald Trump is putting together a new council that will influence when the countryshould be reopened. No date has been set yet.
WASHINGTON — Leading Republicans say the coronavirus shutdown cannot go on. Car-honking activists swarmed a statehouse Wednesday to protest stay-home restrictions. Capitol Hill staff are quietly drafting bills to undo the just-passed rescue aid and push Americans back to work.
Behind President Donald Trump's effort to accelerate re-opening the U.S. economy during the pandemic is a contingent of GOP allies eager to have his back.
Reps. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), and 38 other members of Congress sent a letter to the White House on Monday encouraging the government not to send those $1,200 checks to illegal aliens.
PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey might ease a ban on surgeries that's caused severe pain for hospitals and some of their patients.
The move would mark Ducey's first significant walkback of coronavirus restrictions in the 21 executive orders he's issued, as the national debate grows over returning to a normal way of life.
Arizona hospitals have sounded the alarm in recent days about the enormous financial hit they've taken from Ducey's executive order March 19, banning elective surgeries or procedures by doctors, as well as dentists.