Senate to talk about how the tragic spread of the coronavirus around the world underscored the need for us to focus on the persistent challenge of china not playing by the rules. Now, in the case of coronavirus that was about china not telling the World Health Organization, not telling other countries, not telling their own people what was happening in terms of the coronavirus, not taking steps to stop International Travel early on. That wasnt playing by the w. H. O. Rules, the World Health Organization rules, and the result has been devastation. It has been the spread of the virus and so much of that devastation weve seen around the globe, in my view could have been avoided had they played by the rules. Unfortunately not playing by the rules applies to china in many other areas too. We talked about trade allot on this floor of the senate to be sure that theres a level Playing Field between china and the United States and making sure they play by the International Trading rules. But he
Persistent challenge of china not playing by the rules. In the case of coronavirus, that was about china not telling the World Health Organization, not telling other countries, not telling their own people what was happening in terms of the coronavirus, not taking steps to stop International Travel early on. That wasnt playing by the who rules, the World Health Organization rules and the result has been devastation. Its been the spread of the virus and so much of that devastation weve seen around the globe in my view could have been avoided. Had they played by the rules. Unfortunately, not playing by the rules applies to china in many other areas, too. Weve talked about trade a lot on this floor of the senate to be sure theres a level Playing Field between china and the United States and making sure they play by the International Trading rules, but here is another one, where china and the Chinese Communist party has not played by the rules. And thats with regard to obtaining our intell
Trillion. So its actually more than the previous four combined. And the legislation that shes proposing has a lot of items that arent directly related to the covid19 crisis, they are, as someone said, a wish list of priorities and others have said in the media that its more of a messaging bill. So well see. Among other things it says as an example that they want to change the current law which says that youre limited in terms of how much of a federal Tax Deduction you can take for state and local taxes, thats called the salt issue, and they want to repeal that. That cost, by the way, is about 180 billion dollars, Something Like that. And it would result in about 50 of the benefit, the tax benefit going to the top 1 of the taxpayers. So if that doesnt sound like something thats going to be, you know, impactful in terms of the coronavirus pandemic we face, i can think a lot of better ways to spend that money, including more testing, ensuring our Small Businesses can get back on their fee
The president today addressed the issue during a meeting with the governor of louisiana. Its coming in, and im getting pieces already, and were not happy about it. We are, by far, the largest contributor to w. H. O. , world health. And they misled us. I dont know, they must have known more than they knew. Right now theyre literally a pipe organ for china. Chinas not to be congratulated for what happened, just so you understand it. Theyre not to be congratulated for what took place. And w. H. O. Is essentially congratulating them. And when they start doing that, weve got problems. Lou and the president s secretary of state, mike pompeo, demanding china provide access to u. S. Investigators into those laboratories in wuhan where it is believed the deadly contagion that has plagued the world originated. It has also been widely reported the Chinese Government weeks ago ordered all virus samples in wuhan laboratories to be destroyed. Secretary pompeo today told fox news that the United Stat
Chinese communist party. The president today addressed the issue during a meeting with the governor of louisiana. Its coming in, and im getting pieces already, and were not happy about it. We are, by far, the largest contributor to w. H. O. , world health. And they misled us. I dont know, they must have known more than they knew. Right now theyre literally a pipe organ for china. Chinas not to be congratulated for what happened, just so you understand it. Theyre not to be congratulated for what took place. And w. H. O. Is essentially congratulating them. And when they start doing that, weve got problems. Lou and the president s secretary of state, mike pompeo, demanding china provide access to u. S. Investigators into those laboratories in wuhan where it is believed the deadly contagion that has plagued the world originated. It has also been widely reported the Chinese Government weeks ago ordered all virus samples in wuhan laboratories to be destroyed. Secretary pompeo today told fox