Coronavirus Failures by Trump Feed a Market Dive, Democrats Say

  • Candidates blame Trump for inaction, efforts to cut the CDC
  • Trump tweets Democrats won’t admit he’s doing a ‘great job’
Fed's Clarida Says It's Still Too Soon to Speculate on Virus Impact
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Democratic presidential candidates tore into President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus epidemic, saying in their debate Tuesday that a failure to take action has fed public fear and this week’s plunge in stock markets.

“The stock market’s falling apart because people are really worried -- and they should be,” former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said when asked about the coronavirus during the debate in Charleston, South Carolina. “We don’t have anybody to respond.”