Coronavirus Special Report: Evening update, 3/16

By Shawn Zeller and Evan Campbell

Posted March 16, 2020 at 4:56pm

This episode of Coronavirus Special Report rounds up all the policy news of the day including President Donald Trump’s latest remarks, the stimulus package and what the nation’s hospitals and health care workers say they need.

Show Notes:

Road ahead: COVID-19 stimulus still behind FISA on Senate schedule
Airlines seek $58 billion in aid for business lost to pandemic
Supreme Court delays arguments for the first outbreak since Spanish flu
Census delays outreach due to coronavirus concerns

A Massachusetts primary tests Democrats’ appetite to ‘change the culture’

A worker stocks Angus beef top sirloin filets in the meat section of a grocery store in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 25, 2025.

Trump creates beef with ranchers over new import plan

Construction continues on a new helipad on the South Lawn of the White House and the East Wing ballroom on August 20, 2026.

White House ballroom construction can proceed, SCOTUS says

A child is vaccinated during an immunization event at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan Community Resource Center in Los Angeles on Oct. 24, 2025.

HHS seeks input on kids vaccination changes called for by Trump

President Donald Trump looks on before signing a piece of stone at the construction site of a helipad on the South Lawn of the White House on Wednesday. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump tries to shrug off opponents’ rush to define him as lame duck

California state Sen. Aisha Wahab speaks to reporters during her election night watch party in Hayward, Calif., on Tuesday. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Podcasts