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Remarks and then i will ask questions. You can submit questions as well. But first your opening remarks. Welcome. Thank you for the introduction but i want to welcome aei for inviting me to be here today earlier this month i have reflections on the last 50 years of the epa and laid out our plan for its future at the Nixon Library. Today i would like to explain based on what we have accomplished over the past four years how we will get to this future. It is incontrovertible today the environment is in better shape under President Trump and we found it. Since 2017 air pollution in this country has fallen 7 percent. Last year superfund sites the most in a single year since 2001 and b will list another 27 this year the epa is trying to finance more than 40 billion of clean Water Infrastructure supporting 7100 projects ....
Its like social distancing Counter Measures like shutdowns the toll could go fall but modeled the worst Case Scenario of 1500000 to 2200000 deaths so what were going to see and thats weve got to brace ourselves in the next several days to a week or so were going to continue to see things go up we cannot be discouraged by that because the mitigation is actually working and will work. A somber President Trump said the mitigation measures were a matter of life and death i want every american to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead were going to go through a very tough 2 weeks. And then hopefully as the experts are predicting as i think a lot of us are predicting after having studied it so hard you can start seeing some related the end of the tunnel but this is going to be a very painful very very painful to excess ....
Tested more than any other country by far not even close and tested accurately meanwhile the u. S. Federal reserve has made new unemployment estimates rob reynolds has more on that from los angeles. So theres some pretty bad news from the u. S. Central bank the Federal Reserve saying that 47000000 americans could wind up jobless and the Unemployment Rate could reach as high as 32 percent President Trump said that at the end of this pandemic prices the u. S. Economy will come back the governor of florida says he doesnt want a cruise ship with coronavirus patients on board to dock that 4 people have died and dozens of sick on board these on dime cruise liner its heading towards florida to possibly through the panama canal passengers showing those symptoms were removed and taken to zaandam sister ship the most of them ....