Originally Posted By: jazzmammal
He was getting impeached! The biggest political spectacle is 30 flippin years!! Then the trial was in the Senate for 3 weeks. And exactly when was this? ALL of January into February. BY LAW, NO OTHER SENATE BUSINESS CAN BE CONDUCTED DURING AN IMPEACHMENT TRIAL Don't you think he was slightly preoccupied?

Most actions on the POTUS' part don't require Senate action.

For example, Trump's "travel ban" to China was enacted on December 31, during the time you said he couldn't take any action.

The House was holding hearings on the Coronavirus at the time. Here's Ron Klain at House subcommittee hearing on February 5th talking about the "ban":

“There’s no restriction on Americans going back and forth,” Klain said. “There are warnings. People should abide by those warnings. But today, 30 planes will land in Los Angeles that either originated in Beijing or came here on one-stops, 30 in San Francisco, 25 in New York City. Okay? So, unless we think that the color of the passport someone carries is a meaningful public health restriction, we have not placed a meaningful public health restriction.”

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/the-facts-on-trumps-travel-restrictions/

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All the House had to do when it became apparent this virus could be serious was drop the impeachment farce and focus on legislation that meant something like oh I don't know, beefing up our response to a pandemic?

Congress and the public health community had been urgently asking Trump for weeks to submit a request for emergency funds.

He finally did so on March 24th, asking $1.25 billion in new funding, with flexibility to take additional $1 billion from existing funds like medical research, Head Start, Ebola vaccine funding and the like.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/24/trump-coronavirus-budget-request-117275

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