Coronavirus Special Report: What happens if DC becomes the next hot spot?

By Shawn Zeller and Evan Campbell

Posted May 11, 2020 at 5:32pm

Tonight, health policy is in sharp focus. The West Wing has recently had two confirmed cases of COVID-19, raising questions about whether it is too soon to reopen the nation’s capital as the administration has been suggesting.

Show Notes:

Road ahead: Coronavirus causing scheduling havoc, but Senate presses ahead with other business
Will 2020 be the year the RNC’s ‘autopsy’ was right?
The Senate and partisanship return to the Capitol
Pandemic-related changes to military bases require scrutiny, experts say
Supreme Court could reshape congressional subpoena power in Trump case

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)