AP Interview: Clyburn warns US lacks plan to stop virus
(World News USA)

Rep. James Clyburn said Wednesday the COVID-19 crisis is “much, much worse” than the 2008 Great Recession because the U.S. is without a national strategy to contain the coronavirus. “Our entire economy is at stake,” Clyburn told The Associated Press in a Newsmakers interview. The third-ranking House Democrat said he`s hopeful that negotiators on Capitol Hill can reach an agreement soon on a new virus aid package. But he said it`s a direr situation than the financial crisis more than a decade ago. “We`ve got a health care crisis wrapped into an economic crisis, and they are so interwoven,” Clyburn said. “You can`t solve the economic crisis without solving the health care crisis, and the...