We would love to answer your questions, so please tweet us questions using the askedpolitico, and we will try to get to them throughout the conversation. Anna lets get started. Chairman, thanks for joining us. We are all super focus on the coronavirus pandemic. We are coming, each of us, from our own respective homes. How do you grade the federal response so far . Mr. Perez well, the response of this administration has been one of gross incompetence. It is an utter failure of leadership. This president knew, around the first of the year, that this was a pandemic in the making, and because he is always so concerned about himself, and he wants to be the center of attention, he exhorted the he ignored the advice of seasoned professionals, like dr. Fauci and so many others, and those eight weeks that were lost during this period of time were eight precious weeks that cost lives. Other actions of preparedness, preparedness on getting ppe, this is personal for me. I have four siblings they a
How her district has been hit by the coronavirus, what needs to be done as far as Economic Relief and what congress will do, and the 2020 election. Events thatrtual politico is hosting in the coming weeks, journalists from across the newsroom. If you have any questions for representative ocasiocortez, you can tweet them and we will try to get to them at the end of our conversation. Before she joins us in a few minutes, lets set the stage for where we are today. And number of weeks into the corona pandemic. You are in your house, i am in my, it is different from a lot of the live events we have done. Made we can break it down in terms of what is happening at the white house and on capitol hill. And this effort to try to figure out when the u. S. Can reopen for business. Jake welcome to my living room or my office. Veryportant important things to think about. The white house in the midst of rolling out a counsel with which the president will decide by what mechanism and went to open the
Politico playbook. Im here with my colleague jake sherman who writes playbook with me. We are with dnc chairman tom perez. Thank you so much for joining us we will be talking about the response to the coronavirus, the shift to thank you so much for joining us. We are going to be talking about the response to coronavirus. And how democrats are facing the challenges related to voting in the primaries. Mr. Sherman these briefings are among events politico is hosting in the coming weeks with journalism across the newsroom. Ross the newsroom. We would love to answer your questions, so please tweet us questions using the askedpolitico, and we will try to get to them throughout the cover station. Anna lets get started. Chairman, thanks for joining us. We are all super focus on the coronavirus pandemic. We are coming, each of us, from our own respective homes. How do you grady federal response so far . Mr. Perez well, the response of this administration has been one of gross incompetence. It i
Of several coming in the coming weeks across the newsroom. We would love to answer your questions, so please tweet us questions using the askedpolitico, and we will try to get to them throughout the cover station. Anna lets get started. Chairman, thanks for joining us. We are all super focus on the coronavirus pandemic. We are coming, each of us, from our own respective homes. How do you grady federal response so far . Mr. Perez well, the response of this administration has been one of gross incompetence. It is an utter failure of leadership. This president knew come around the first of the year, that this was a pandemic in the making, and because he is always so concerned about himself, and he wants to be the center of attention, he exhorted the advice of seasoned professionals, like dr. Fauci and so many others, and those eight weeks that were lost during this period of time were eight precious weeks that cost lives. Preparedness,of preparedness on getting ppe, this is personal for m
I am jake sherman. I am joined by my colleague anna palmer to post a virtual aoc. Ook with she will talk to us about how by thetrict has been hit coronavirus and what congress is going to do in the coming weeks and months. Todays briefings are among the political events politico is hosting across the newsroom. , youu have any questions can tweak them with the atpolitico. Lets just set the stage for where we are today several weeks into this pandemic. This is different from a lot of the live events we have done. Lets break it down from what is happening at the white house and this overarching effort on figuring out when the u. S. Can reopen for business. Catch us up to speed. Room or my office. Veryportant important things to think about. The white house in the midst of rolling out a counsel with which the president will decide by what mechanism and went to open the economy and his estimation economy, which wasnt a good position before the coronavirus, and the president wants to get it