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Conservatives in the House are calling for the country to immediately reopen, raising concerns that the closure of nonessential businesses due to COVID-19 infringes on individuals' rights and could have detrimental long-term effects on the economy.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) is calling on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to push back on calls to provide additional funding for state and local economies in the next coronavirus stimulus package.
GILBERT, ARIZONA – Today, Congressman Andy Biggs was appointed to President Trump's Congressional Task Force on Reopening the American Economy. Congressman Biggs issued the following statement:
"Under President Trump's leadership over the past three-plus years, the American economy enjoyed historic success. Millions of jobs were created. The unemployment rate was at a record low. And wages were rising. The Trump administration's pro-growth policies were paying dividends for millions of American individuals, families, and businesses.
Republicans in the House of Representatives are criticizing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's claim that President Donald Trump cutting funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) is "illegal."
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.