This is great for Small Businesses and workers. 30 billion to the Paycheck Protection Fund will be reserved for small financial and to shins him a including those who treat minority and distressed communities. That is 30 billion of the Paycheck Protection Funds. To do withlly having extending vital relief to thousands of africanamerican and hispanic American People and businesses in this country that have been so great that so badly hurt. 10 billion for economic aid. This will provide loans to Small Businesses and farms. Very important farms. Money for rural clinics. Let me once again thank everyone who helped achieve these historic victories. We are really hitting it hard. The task force has been fantastic. The ideas in implementation have been fantastic. We dont get the credit we should. I dont want for myself. I wanted for all the incredible people who are working so hard. You see what we have done with ventilators. I have many countries calling. We are the king of ventilators. Countries are calling all the time. Can we help them with ventilators we are helping some people. Talk to people in el salvador, honduras, indonesia. To people in el salvador, honduras, indonesia. I spoke to president s, prime ministers, everybody. We all want to know if we will help them with ventilators. Every governor has more than they need. It is an amazing story that has not been written about. Much of the news is not fair. That has been incredible. One month ago we had done a total of 80,000 test. Now because of the partnership you have forged, governors around the country, 5. 1 million american. Trump honduras just called and they are in a quagmire. They do not have good testing. Southern border is setting record lows for people coming here. What we have done on the wall is incredible. The numbers are incredible. It is like a different world. People used to drive right across and no one can do anything about it. Now we have a tremendous, powerful wall. A country needs to have borders. If you dont have borders you have people coming in by the tens of thousands. It has been a great thing. We will sign this right now. I would like to ask if the Vice President wants to say anything. And maybe some of the people in the room. They have been great friends of our country. Pence thank you to the leadership of the house and senate that are gathered here together. More help is on the way. Small businesses will be able to keep more americans on the payroll. We are encouraging hospitals to restart elective surgery. I would like to thank all the members of the house and senate who are here. Pres. Trump what was the float in the senate . Unanimous. Trump and then they will criticize me for doing the bill. But they voted for it. I want to thank you and your team. You, the Vice President , the secretary of the treasury, literally working around the clock. My state has a tough, Resilient Group of people. Your grandfather is part of that legacy. The great state of alaska. This bill will help. Thank you for the leadership and calling on congress to pass this bill. This will put another 300 billion dollars in the paycheck protection program. This is a lifeline for Small Businesses. You have saved 30 million jobs with that money. 30 Million People are on the payroll today who would be unemployed. This will save another 30 Million People. We see all of these industries. This bill will be a lifeline to millions more people. I want to thank all of those on the front lines. Those in the medical community, the truck drivers, the farmers who are providing food, making sure it is safe and america. And those in the stores. What we are watching across this country is people making sacrifices. This is an example everybody wants to see. We will overcome this and we will be stronger. If it werent for a country you live to us, we would never have had to experience this. We designed this in a time of need. If you look at the data, 70 is going tot money businesses that have 60,000 or fewer in the payroll. I think those in politics. Today you will sign something that will make a fundamental difference. Your strong leadership has propelled the motivation and energy and tenacity of the Small Business administration. Business, the fact that we have over 700 billion dollars committed to Small Businesses. It would not have happened had it not been for your strong leadership, galvanizing the left in the right and everything in between to make these funds possible. Now we are focused on economic recovery. And on Small Businesses. We will meet them at the quarter corner. We will become very strong in the new economy. Trump i assume we have never done numbers like this. This is recordbreaking straw stuff. It is like an atm machine with over 400 billion and 30 Small Businesses waiting in line. Trump harvard and stanford are giving back the money. We are talking about some of the bigger companies. They should not have taken it. Pres. Trump john . These are extraordinary times. It tests all of us. I want to congratulate you and your administration in meeting this challenge. This virus is trying to teach us a lot of lessons we have to learn about our supply chain and sourcing these viruses which create ben 10 makes pandemics. My state got a double whammy one is the coronavirus. The other is the oil and gas industry has been decimated. Willingnessate your to meet with the leaders in the , andtry, secretary mnuchin the good work being done in treasury to stand at this Economic Stabilization and Lending Facility which hopefully will provide a lifeline to this industry. In the end, i think we all realize we need to safely find a way to begin to reopen our economy because the biggest problem the industry has is the lack of demand. We will get through this together. I want to extend my appreciation to you and your administration for your leadership and your partnership with all of our mayors, our governors, and those of us who have worked in washington. Pres. Trump good job. Great ones. One of our really big friends. It is an honor to be here for the signing of this really important piece of legislation. Saying thank you and expressing our gratitude to doctors and nurses and Health Care Professionals on the front lines taking care of people. Our prayers to families that have lost people to this horrible virus. And i appreciate very much the focus on remembering where the virus came from and the extent to which the Chinese Communist party and the government of china are very much responsible for an action that allowed this virus, they caused this virus, to be spread around the world, because they were not honest or forthcoming and allowed travel outside of wuhan to the rest of the world. And they have to be held accountable and i know there will be a lot of good work on both sides of the aisle in congress. Pres. Trump steve . Youhis is the fourth bill have signed to help with the coronavirus. This is important. I want to thank the senate and the house for working with us to get this done and i want to thank the American Workers and American Business for their hard work. This is really a Program Designed for Small Business. We put out clarification yesterday that some of the bigger businesses that had taken out loans should return the money. We appreciate if they have done that. There will be a surveillance around this if they do not. I can tell you many stories i have received from Small Businesses, some that have 510 people, and the meaningful impact this has had. I know the additional funds to an enormous difference to over another 30 million workers. Between the original funds and these funds, it will be over 60 million workers, close to half of the private payroll. Thank you. Great to be with you. Your team is reacting and moving in away, faster, that anyone has ever seen. Int the secretary has done Small Business, unbelievable. This is a small agency that has done years of works in just a few days. The load that secretary mnuchin has taken on, and the way they have been able to respond to get individual direct payments out, unbelievable. There is always going to be some gaps. Now theyre stepping back and doing exactly what you need to do. The amount of work done here is incredible. I talked to the mayor of jefferson city, our state capital, yesterday, the Second Generation owner of the hallmark store on high street in jefferson city. Loans, thethout the minute she got the notice she got the loan. That was the difference in whether her business was going to survive or not. One other thing, on the testing. We work closely with you to design that testing to do what you think needs to be done in terms of the delivery of how we have attacked this virus. Half the money goes immediately to states and the local Community Health centers and rural health centers. The rest is going to be used to and a sharktry, tank kind of atmosphere, with public and private partners together, trying to decide what new tests can be available in a quicker way and also how we can encourage faster production of those tests than they would be able to do by themselves. That direction came out of this office between you and the chief of staff and i am glad the bill reflects that. Pres. Trump thank you, good job, i appreciate it. I spoke with tim cook of apple. He would like us to do things. He will spend tremendous amounts of money in our country and bringing back tens of billions of dollars into our country. He feels we are going to have a v, you know we are talking about the you are the vr flatline . He thinks it is going to be a v. And he gets it. Want to thank everyone here today and the people who have suffered so greatly most of all, for a reason that should have never happened. This should have never happened to our country. This should have never happened to 184 other countries either. This is a disgrace that was allowed to happen. With that, i will sign the bill. Clicking] ok. Thank you ray much. [indiscernible] give one to the [indiscernible] [laughter] [cameras clicking] ok. Thank you all very much. Hold on, very partly, we are going to give these out. Very importantly. President , more people have died today. You say you want credit for what the government has done. Do you take any response velti for these 50,000 deaths . Pres. Trump i think weve done a great job. As you know, minimal numbers were, minimal numbers were going. O be 100,000 people minimal numbers were going to be hundred thousand people and we are going to be hopefully, far below that. If we do not take quick action you could have lost millions of people. So we are really being given a lot of credit. Im not looking for credit for myself. But i am looking for people in the federal government that have done such a great job and for the doctors and nurses in every else. Please . You talked about [indiscernible] pres. Trump i do not know this element. I do not know that gentlemen. I do not know how you sign a whistleblower complaint. How do you sign a whistleblower complaint when everyone knows who he has . I do not know anything about him. The county because he was. [indiscernible] that again, i do not know anything about it. Easy, take it nice and easy. I do not know anything about him. Until yesterday i never heard of the gentleman. Ok . Into it happened to him . Have you asked anyone to look into the circumstances of what happened to him . Pres. Trump i have not yet. At some point i well. I guess they moved him to a different group. For spreading the virus and covering this up . Pres. Trump we are looking into it and studying it and investigating it and we will see what happens. It is something that should have been stopped early on. It could have been stopped easily. We do not understand why they did not do it. So we are looking into it. We are not happy about it. Why dont you know about . Pres. Trump who are u. S. . I am with npr. Pres. Trump ok go ahead, you are not up. You support any money for the Postal Service . Dr. Fauci i can comment. Sec. Mnuchin i can, it. We authorized a 10 billion loan and my team is working on with the Postal Service in case they need the money and we are dealing with that. Pres. Trump the Postal Service is a joke. Because they are heading up packages for amazon and other Internet Companies and every time they bring a package they lose money on it. They are handing out packages. So amazon and other Internet Companies and Delivery Companies are dropping not all, but a big portion of packages and whatever else they are doing into a post office. And the post office is supposed to deliver the packages. And they lose a lot of money. The post office should raise the price of a package by approximately four times. Because they do not raise them for some reason these people have been in there long time. For some reason theyre very cozy with some of these companies. And they do not raise the price of a package. And for a five times, that is what it should be. Or let amazon build their own post office which would be an impossible thing to do. Because the post office is massive and serves every piece of a country. The post office if they raise the price of a package, by four times, it would be a whole new ballgame. They do not want to raise that because they do not want to insult companies. The post office should raise the price of the packages to companies not to the people, took companies. If they did that it would be a different story. You agree with that statement . Sec. Mnuchin i do and we are going to put certain criteria for a postal Reform Program as part of the loan. And we are looking forward to the board is recruiting a new postmaster general. And doing postal reform. Pres. Trump i will go a step further. If they do not raise the price of the service that they get which is a Tremendous Service and they do a great job with the postal workers are fantastic, this thing is losing billions of dollars and it has for years because they do not want to insult, for whatever reason you can imagine. They do not want to insult these groups. If they do not raise the price im not signing anything. So they will raise the price of that they become maybe even profitable but so they lose less money. Ok . And if they do not do it im not signing anything. And im not authorizing you to do anything, steve. Can you clarify your comments about injections of disinfectant. Pres. Trump i was asking the question sarcastically to reporters like you to see what would happen. Doing this,ctant maybe on the hands would work. I was asking the question of the gentleman who was there yesterday, bill. Somethingsay that will last 34 hours or six hours, but if the sun is out or if they use disinfectant, it goes away in less than a minute, did you heard about this yesterday . Sarcastic, very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside. But it does kill it. And it would killed on the hands. And that would make things much better. That was done in the form of a sarcastic question to the reporters. So you are asking her medical expert to look into it . Pres. Trump no. To look into whether or not sunshine and disinfectant on the hands. Whether or not sunshine can help us. He came inmean, yesterday and he said they have done a big study. This is a study. This is not where he has done it. This is a final report that son sunshine has a massive impact negatively on this. In other words it does not live well with humidity and it does not live well with son shine sun light and heat. Heat and sunshine and disinfectant. And that is what i brought out i thought it was clear. Anything else . Would you comment on what you are considering for help to the oil and Gas Industries . Pres. Trump yes i want to help that industry. That industry got unnecessarily hurt by massive amounts of oil produced by very big countries. Oilproducing countries. And they got carried away. And i got involved with those two countries to have them make peace with each other. But by the time we get involved all of a sudden they have billions of barrels they never saw a thing like it. Every tanker. Every tanker is loaded up with oil sitting out in the ocean. Oil is less than water. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. In many respects for our country, automobiles and airplanes on the things you have to do with the airlines, we are trying to make the airlines work again and we will. We just provided financing for them which was great. We are going to keep our airlines and all those employees totally intact. In some ways the fuel cost is very low. But i am an Energy Person. I love the Energy Business. We are Energy Independent paired we are going to stay that way. We are also filling up, as you know, john, our National Strategic reserves. And we are filling up like never before. And we are, friendly, getting very good prices, as we should very good prices. We are, frankly. That is 75 million barrels. We will have that filled up pretty soon. So it will be felt for the first time in a long time and we are doing it at a very, very low cost. It will be filled for the first time in a long time. Their market of because of the virus, in all fairness to the producers and the countries. They lost 40 of the market because people are not driving automobiles. They are not doing anything. All of a sudden, they are not flying airplanes. The Airline Business is essentially shut down. All of this massive amount of fuel, and this is all of the world, not here. This is in virtually every country. I probably say, as you know, i have been talking about on hundred 84 countries and it is probably more than that now. A very sophisticated friend of mine said i never knew that you had 184 countries and we actually have more than that. 184 countries that we know of have been affected by this. So the oil business lost 40 to 50 of their market. And that was who wouldve seen nothing like that coming . Back, the this comes Energy Business will come back and it will come back strong. So we will work with it. The Energy Business is very important to me. We are going to build it up. This really hurt the Energy Business as much as any other business. Because it totally knocked out. The supply kept coming. And by the way, there was a lot of oil when this hit. Before it hit there was a lot of oil. Prices were pretty low, which is a good thing. That may got hit by desperate and it was devastating to the Energy Business all of the world. Demi got hit by this. Then we got hit by this. Once the straightens out youll get demand and reduce supply and it will equalize and it is going to be great again. We will make the Energy Business great again. And we want to remain independent. We are independent now. We are totally independent on energy we want to keep it that way. Clarify whether the government is considering reinstating kok state Energy Companies . Sec. Mnuchin we are looking at a bunch of alternatives and it would be premature for me to comment on any of them. The present has asked me to look at the range of alternatives. You can assume that is one of the alternatives but there are many. Pres. Trump one of the alternatives we can think about, we could buy the United States is the largest user of oil. We could buy oil at a great price into the future. That gives them the infusion they need and we have oil at a great price into the future. That is something i would like you to think about. Sec. Mnuchin it is as you have suggested. Pres. Trump likewise i told steve, we are the biggest user of the airlines, the United States government. One of the ways we can help the airlines is by buying tickets at a very large discount, may be fit percent off or maybe more. Maybe 50 off or maybe more. And you buy four years or five years of tickets and infuse them with cash and in meantime we are flying the people of our country for a fraction of the cost that would be when the airlines get back. They will get back. So we are thinking in terms of, as additional. Because the airlines are all set right now. As an additional incentive where we buy tickets in advance at a big discount. Which i have like from the beginning. I have liked from the beginning. The airlines are going to be fine the way it is now. But i like that as an additional help for the airlines. I like it both ways. We are the larger user, the largest user of the airlines, see buy tickets, sounds good, right . If we get a good discount. Wyoming appreciates what you are doing for the energy industry. Pres. Trump wyoming is great, they are great. Sir, sorry to interrupt. First i want to thank you and your administration. Your involvement on the opec incredible, vital, it would not have happened without what you did. Your whole team is been focused on energy. One issue a number of us are starting to have concerns about, is there are big front American Financial institutions that the federal government has helped many times. They are going to do well with regard to facilitating some of the cares act stuff. They are starting to discriminate against american Energy Companies. Investmente against in my state, in alaska. And i stated is going to be important. Pres. Trump i do not like that. Wall street banks that want the federal government to help support them. And then they discriminate against, a critical sector of the u. S. Economy . By the way, the sector in the 20082009 recession, it really drove but out of our recession. I do not think they should be allowed to do that, sir. Pres. Trump i look like the up i like the idea of looking into that, youre right. Where they were parched by the radical left. So they are afraid of the radical left. Where they were pushed by the radical left. They should not be afraid. You should not be afraid of them. You should reason with them and if they do not raise and do what is right. You cannot be discovered netting against these great Energy Companies and there is, ive heard that from them. You cannot be discriminating against these great Energy Companies. One of the banks said we want to be out of energy by 2050. What is that about . They want to be out of energy. We are blessed in this country because we are sitting on top of tremendous wealth. Very few countries have that kind of wealth. We are bigger than saudi arabia, bigger than russia, bigger than any other comp tree in terms of our i the other country in terms of our energy. And the paris accord did not give you the advantage. And i so i would not sign it. They did not want us to use our great asked. One of the interesting things if you look at iran and saudi arabia and the big, vast, waterways we patrol. Gratis forears nothing so that other people got rich so weak get oil out of their but so other people got rich, we never got anything and now we get things for it. But we do not have ships for much in there anymore. And with all of the conflict in all of the things, they kept saying, where the american ships . We have so much energy now. We are sitting on so much and it has happened over the last three years. One thing that happened, jonathan, if you look, john, you are in favor of it because you are an Energy Person but we helped alaska. But we really helped the United States with the Alaska National wildlife refuge. Ronald reagan tried to get approved and cannot do it. Every present tried to get every president tried to get it approved and they did not. People do not talk about it. That is why i talk about it. [laughter] more, the alaska anwar, Alaska National wildlife refuge is probably the largest in the world. One of may, the largest fines anywhere in the world. And we got it approved largest fines. Anywhere innds the world. Ronald reagan cannot do it, he could not get the Alaska National wild life refuge approved and we got it approved and we got it past. Passed. A great achievement for everyone in this room. And it the great achievement for the two of you, the big oil guys, right . And the senators, the people in this room, they love energy, right . The jobs it represents and gives us total independence owed is very important. Output of the saudis or do you want further cuts in production . [indiscernible] pres. Trump the men in front of you, hes not worried about you, he is protected. Are you satisfied with the current cuts from the saudis and the russians or do you want further cuts in production . Pres. Trump it could be that they further cut. I think it will be natural. It will be natural at this point. I think i got them to cut, maybe, what would you say . 10ould say, they say million, but i think it is 15 million barrels. I even her 20 barrels. But it is going to be natural. Ivan heard 20 million barrels. I even heard 20 million barrels. If you go to north dakota, it is going to be natural. Right now, they have got to cut. Supply and demand is a beautiful thing. But what happened is one day all of our demand, not all, 50 of our demand disappeared with this virus. They say from 40 to 50 . So you are producing and it is going good, prices good. Good enough for the companies and good for the country. And then one day, it stopped. So, i guess you could always say to somebody salt. But it happened you could say it is someones fault. But it happened. Yes . Can you or secretary azar pressure act in the administration to promote it pressure or scientists . [indiscernible] pres. Trump i did speak with the president of honduras and i do not bring up, he did. He said they use a hydroxychloroquine and he said the results are incredible. This happened an hour ago. I just spoke to him, the president of honduras. I guess we made some available to them or whatever. He was thanking me. And he was thanking me and i said how is a result . And he said it has been incredible. Hes not a doctor i do not think. Are good. E results so you hear both ways. I have seen all negative other than the other days i saw some study which was not good. But i saw a very positive coming out of but he is the president of honduras saying how good it was. We are i did not bring up the subject, he brought it up. He has to be there. Im not a doctor. The study has to be done. And if it helps that is great, if it is not, do not do it. It does work with as you know, malaria, lupus and so on and it is a very powerful drug. And i would say this. If it works, i think everybody would be in favor of it. But check with him, call him. The president of honduras. A really nice guy. I just left him, just on the phone. You know what he needed . Ventilators. He said can you give us . We can help you. Because we are going to have 110,000 made in a very short time. And they have been making them by the thousands. Mike pence want to a factory in wisconsin the other day, three days ago. He came back and could not believe how incredible the factory was. They are making thousands of they are making thousands of ventilators every couple of months and countries are calling us now. France. Italy. We are sending to italy, france, spain. We are making thousands and thousands of very high grade ventilators, big difference between very highgrade and not highgrade. As late as they need them, we are sending them all over the world. And when we asked the governors you need ventilators, the answer is no. New york was nice they sent some to massachusetts. Yes . A followup on the comments yesterday. You said you are being sarcastic. But some people may have misunderstood. You want to clarify . Pres. Trump i do think this. The disinfectant on the hands could have a very good effect. Going back to check that in the laboratory. An amazing laboratory by the way. Amazing. The work they do. So he is going to check. , hard surface and this is a hard surface and i guess it appends on whose hands are talking about, right . This is a hard service and disinfecting, disinfectant has an unbelievable, it wipes it out. You saw it. Sun and heat and he did a wipe it out. This is from tests. They have been doing this test for a number of months. Said, why do we do it inside the body . Or even outside the body with the hands . And disinfecting i think would work him a he things would work. He use it when youre doing your hands and i guess that is one of the reasons they say wash your hands. Whether it is washing your hands are disinfectant on your hands is very good. So theyre going to start looking at that. And there is a way of, if sunlightitself, that has a tremendous impact on it. It kills it from hours to minutes it is dead. So i said you have to go back and look. Can wipe it out as it pertains to the human body not just a railing or wall. Maybe there something that we can work with. Im not a doctor. They have to work with the doctors. Maybe there is something to sunlight in the human body and helping people that are dying. Ok . Are youarify encouraging americans you are not encouraging americans to disinfectant . Wise,trump no, interior it was said sarcastically, put in the form of a question. It was to the media. I wanted you to clarify that. Pres. Trump all they had to do is to see, you know the way it is, i was looking at you. You are looking at dr. Birx . Pres. Trump i was looking at [indiscernible] i was looking at the doctor and some of the reporters. I do not know if you were there. Were you there . I was there. Pres. Trump you are there. You are there, i will never forget. You are not. If you were there i would never forget. Mr. President , i know you continuously ask, [indiscernible] pres. Trump hold at one second. Any other questions from any other people . We are not. [reporters shouting] a live look at the White House Briefing room where soon, President Trump will brief reporters on the coronavirus response. He is set to be joined by Vice President pence and members of the task force. Until then, we will look at a briefing from earlier today was new york governor andrew cuomo, also on the coronavirus. Looksuomo everybody bright and happy. Happy and bursting with love. Today is friday. I hope you have big plans for the weekend, if you have a weekend. Total hospitalizations, down. Good news