Need both democrats and republicans to come together to get this legislation the legislation completed and it looks like its on its way but we need both and it should be for people that are working for the workers and if you look and you see we have a lot of people that are affected by that and its a very positive development so we have to get a bipartisan approval of that and hopefully that will happen today the department of education is also announcing the availability of more than 6000000000 dollars in emergency Grant Funding to assist College Students impacted by the cancellation of classes and the suspension of housing. A lot of people had. A lot of things suspended housing is one of them previously we waive student loan payments for 6 months of student loan payments have been waived for 6 months and will discuss it after that may go further although this medical war separated our citizens for a period of time its also united our entire nation i think i can say like almost never
Testing and what governors do offering guidelines. Pres. Trump thank you very much. I would like to begin by saying that we are continuing to negotiate with the democrats to get our great workers and Small Businesses all over the country taking care of. Tohink we are getting close a deal. Could happen, could happen. A lot of good work has been going on. We could have an answer tomorrow. We are going to see what exactly does take place. We are also looking at helping our hospitals and our rural hospitals who have been hurt very badly. The rural hospitals, for a long time, havent been treated properly. We are looking to help them and beyond. We are looking at hospitals as part of the package. We will see how that all comes out. But a lot of good things are happening, very good negotiations. I just got off the phone with the secretary of the treasury, and we have very good negotiations going on right now. I think you could have a nice answer tomorrow, but we will see. America continues to
Nationwide, we have passed the peak on new cases. Also attending the briefing was sonny perdue, who announced the cdc had created new guidelines for production facilities where workers had tested positive for coronavirus. Rus. Strategy is working, very strongly working. New cases are declining throughout the new york metropolitan area. Cases in detroit, denver metro areas are flat. D. C. , baltimore, philadelphia, and state lewis st. Louis are showing great signs of progress. New cases in new orleans are defining. The battle continues, but the data suggests nationwide, we have passed the peak of new cases. Hopefully that will continue and we will make great progress. These encouraging developments have put us in a very strong position to finalize guidelines on states for reopening the country. We are going to be talking about that tomorrow. We will have a News Conference sometime during the afternoon to announce guidelines. We will be talking about various states. It is very exciting.
Weekend. Its moving along quickly. The Airline Business has been hit very hard, as everybody knows. And we are going to be in a position to do a lot to help them. So that they keep their employees and they save their businesses. Thatll be taking place, i think you can say, over the weekend. We may even have discussions with some of the airlines or all the airlines over the weekend. Its going to be a very acceptable package. Its a very big package, a very acceptable package, it will be gad for our country, good for the airline, good for a lot of people. Likewise, i just spoke with the president of russia, vladimir putin, and the king of saudi arabia, king salman, and we had a big talk as to Oil Production and opec and making it so that our industry does well and the oil industry does better than its doing right now, its the numbers are so low that therell be layoffs all over the world. Therell be certainly layoffs in this country, we dont want that to happen. We built a great, great Ene