President Trump said Tuesday he will halt immigration to the U.S. for 60 days, a freeze that will block green card recipients from moving to the country but allow temporary workers to arrivepic.twitter.com/268tuH76M1

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 21, 2020

Serious question: How many people were going to immigrate to the United States in the next 60 days anyway? Anyone have any idea what the expected immigration numbers looked like during a period of hemoraging jobs in a pandemic? https://t.co/1tzJb7gmRd

— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) April 21, 2020

"Lawyers at the Department of Justice were still studying whether the president had the legal authority to unilaterally suspend the issuance of green cards" – I will save them the trouble. NO

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) April 21, 2020

Immigrants are on the front lines of the coronavirus response, putting their lives at risk to make sure our communities are fed, healthy, and safe. The Trump administration needs to stop using this pandemic as cover to implement their xenophobic agenda.https://t.co/3inInEIyMJ

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 21, 2020

Trump threw that immigration order out there so that it would be a shiny thing that reporters would chase instead of other questions. And almost every reporter in that room is falling for it.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 21, 2020

Basically, the OAN question. “Mr. president isn’t what you’re doing just super popular and what everyone wants you to do?“

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 21, 2020

.@chucktodd discusses how President Trump’s re-election prospects might be influencing government responses to COVID-19.

"To give you a sense of where his head is at, last night he used the virus to tweet that he is suspending all immigration."https://t.co/Ehy9jG30VU

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 21, 2020

MEMO TO PRESIDENT from your CDC Director: The next wave this Fall may be worse. America must be prepared for the next wave, and it is likely to come at the worst possible time. Please prepare now. https://t.co/nWxEJwS4Px

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) April 21, 2020

CDC chief says there could be second, possibly worse coronavirus outbreak this winterhttps://t.co/UAQYKQt5tA

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 21, 2020

Breaking news on CNN: pic.twitter.com/rzv8lqP1N2

— CNNBreakingNewsBot (@ATTENTION_CNN) April 21, 2020

Birx, asked whether coronavirus could be worse in the fall, something Redfield is worried about: “I don’t know it will be worse.”

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 21, 2020

Someone please ask Birx if she objects to Trump saying it's ok to open up without meeting the first criteria. Please

— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 21, 2020

Trump just now: "You know, not everybody wants to do such significant testing. Testing is good in some cases, and in some cases it's not."

NBC News: Experts say coronavirus testing must double or triple before the U.S. can safely reopen.https://t.co/YuA1HsQL1p

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 21, 2020

Some recent polling:
Pew: 66% concerned about reopening too fast, 32% concerned about too slow
NBC/WSJ: 58% concerned too fast, 32% too slow
Yahoo/YouGov: 71% concerned too fast, 29% too slow

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 21, 2020

AP: A malaria drug widely touted by Trump for treating the coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals. There were more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care, researchers reported. https://t.co/4pFQjSXrIs

— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) April 21, 2020

The President pushed a drug for weeks and now he's saying he's not aware of his own FDA recommending against it and his own VA study showing how dangerous it is.

— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 21, 2020

Researchers question the accuracy of coronavirus test capable of producing results in less than 15 minutes https://t.co/uYBoglwPpo pic.twitter.com/86kKLJdbcM

— The Hill (@thehill) April 21, 2020

Ugly infighting in high academic research circles in California over coronavirus https://t.co/ljZCDZdWUx

— Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor) April 21, 2020

Breaking-
President Trump just said #HarvardUniversity is gonna pay back money they got in the PPP.

He says he’s gonna make them pay it back. #WBZ

— Kate Merrill (@KateMerrill) April 21, 2020

Good move by this reporter basically to push Trump out of the way and ask Birx if people need to have tattoo parlors be open.

Birx gently says that this is a data driven question and that the people of Atlanta should understand if the data doesn’t support what they want to do.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 21, 2020

Birx recommends tattoo parlors and hair and nail salons do “creative social distancing.” Right, a six foot long needle. A six foot long scissors. I threw up a little in my mouth.

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) April 21, 2020

White House press corps needs to tell Trump specifically what the public-health experts say he needs to do, and then demand to know why he’s not doing it. I've got a cheat sheet. https://t.co/QpFLxGlaTw via @froomkin

— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) April 21, 2020

The Times Can't Stop Pretending Trump Is a Normal President https://t.co/85u1dtboBz

— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) April 21, 2020

When the https://t.co/DtaaH34Eu4. of Texas says there are things "more important than living", like "saving this country for my children and my grandchildren," he means "preventing Republican defeats at the ballot box at all costs, including letting people die."

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 21, 2020

This pandemic has just laid bare America’s worst flaws. Its weaponized ignorance. The myth of rugged individualism. The constant, intentional undermining of science and education. Its restless, ceaseless racism, classism, and unending, inhuman greed. Our putrid, coopted politics.

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) April 21, 2020

Because if he did anything less it would almost be disappointing by now…https://t.co/rcYSi01RBK

— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) April 21, 2020

Trump has frequently claimed that there is nothing that blocks him from running his business as president, infamously stating "The president can't have conflicts of interest."

Turns out, the best way to get him to distance himself from his company is to ask about paying workers. https://t.co/H1vIoEgGME

— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) April 21, 2020

well you did have Russian help according to a bipartisan Senate report.

— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 21, 2020

Boris Johnson and Donald Trump agree ‘coordinated’ response to coronavirus

🤔 What sort of response, or lack of, do they have in mind?https://t.co/BuhCpqen8S

— Random Bits 🔶 #FBPE #Rejoin (@Rand0mB1tsUK) April 21, 2020

Sir Keir Starmer really gave it to Boris Johnson today.

Slack, that is.

Not only did he say the response was “a bit slow” but he finds it “troubling”.

Tomorrow we’re hoping he will say he is “concerned”. And Thursday he will peak when he says it’s all “a bit worrying”.

— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) April 21, 2020

It would be kind of amazing if Starmer just read out emails from the public tomorrow at PMQs https://t.co/fpaW4APrc2

— lukemcgee (@lukemcgee) April 21, 2020

You couldn’t make it up. PPE shipped from UK to Europe whilst NHS staff told to re-use items.

“UK firms said "no choice" but to keep selling lifesaving gear abroad because their offers of help had been repeatedly ignored by the British Govt.”#NHSMillionhttps://t.co/GJHbuOeLTG

— Dr Lauren Gavaghan (@DancingTheMind) April 21, 2020

Whether or not the EU procurement scheme would or would not have made a difference is not the point. The point is that our Government is not being frank with us (to put it mildly).

— Jessica Simor QC (@JMPSimor) April 21, 2020

“Turns out quite literally everything I said earlier was completely wrong” pic.twitter.com/CSQSNVvN71

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) April 21, 2020

“Why are we not following the same guidance as the rest of the international community?”

Labour’s @DrRosena Allin-Khan says “if we were able to have tests, if we were able to be sure of actually who had the virus… we could have go ton top of this much sooner”
#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/t4gBgCMauY

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) April 21, 2020

It’s going to be unbearable to see this liar playing up to his fawning press and dim witted dupes after his miraculous recovery. This is well worth a read, he’s hijacked the NHS for personal gain. https://t.co/tc7K3z00qC

— Ian collins (@Iancoll94354676) April 21, 2020

Breaking: @ONS announces 18,516 deaths of ALL causes in week ending Apr 10. Biggest total in that week in modern history. And biggest of any week since 2000.
These are the most comprehensive measures of UK mortality and, for this time of year, they are off the scale pic.twitter.com/2ftAGkVlxT

— Ed Conway (@EdConwaySky) April 21, 2020

The UK confirmed its 1st #COVID19 death 12 days after Italy & entered lockdown 14 days after Italy. I graphed a 7-day rolling avg of hospital deaths in each since the day of the 1st death. Pretty similar, eh? This is why Italy today's a reasonable guide to the UK in a fortnight. pic.twitter.com/dp1U6QHk7M

— Gerry Lynch (@gerrylynch) April 21, 2020

Leo Varadkar hopes he can announce easing of restrictions next month https://t.co/xrOoFI6W52 via @IrishTimesPol

— Irish Times Politics (@IrishTimesPol) April 21, 2020

The European Council on Thursday is a moment of truth, unlike most events that are billed as moments of truth. It will tell the world definitively whether European countries want to act together or separately when most it at stake. My take: 1/n https://t.co/W3w6mV26Xc

— Martin Sandbu (@MESandbu) April 21, 2020

Coronavirus: World risks 'biblical' famines due to pandemic – UN https://t.co/Jlx38OIyuP

— Darren Vaughan (@vaughanclan) April 21, 2020

"The use of names such as ‘swine flu’ and ‘Middle East Respiratory Syndrome’ has had *unintended* [lol] negative impacts by stigmatizing certain communities or economic sectors.” https://t.co/KaN0ksJwOt

— alya_kh (@Alya_kh) April 21, 2020