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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo plans to deliver his daily briefing in about 15 minutes after meeting with Trump at the White House yesterday.

Cuomo said the president acknowledged at the meeting that the federal government had to be involved in procuring vital medical supplies to help states expand coronavirus testing.

Trump has previously ignored that responsibility, insisting that it was up to states to expand testing capacity. Cuomo agreed that states should take the lead on the issue, but the governor has said in his recent briefings that the federal government has yet to play a role.

“Domestic manufacturers say they have problems in the supply chain,” Cuomo said Monday. “I would like the federal government to help with those supply chain problems.”

Cuomo said Trump also agreed that states needed more funds to address the crisis, and the president said yesterday that state funds would be included in the upcoming coronavirus relief law.

The House rules committee will meet today at 5 p.m. ET to discuss the measure that would temporarily allow members to vote by proxy.

The panel will meet in Room 1100 of the Longworth House office building to mark the proposal, which has been endorsed by the Democratic leadership.

House Republicans They have indicated that they will oppose the measure, which is expected to be present tomorrow for a full vote in the House, but Democrats you will surely have enough support from your side of the hall to approve the proposal.

If the measure is approved, members may designate a representative (another member) who can cast votes on their behalf for the duration of the current crisis.

Joe Biden said he would appoint his advisory panel to help him select a running mate, consisting of three or four people, by May 1.

Biden said last night James Corden in “The Late Late Show” that the panel would interview the final contenders for the VP position after the list has been reduced to “between two and five people.”

Biden jokingly suggested that he would choose Julia Louis Dreyfus as his running mate, referencing the actor’s starring role on the television show “Veep,” which focuses on a vice president and his staff.

The former vice president said he did not yet know who he would choose, but reiterated that the person would have to be able to play the role of president if he had to retire for any reason.

“The first, most important quality is someone who, if I immediately leave the office for whatever reason, can be president,” Biden said.

Biden has already said that the running mate will definitely be a woman, and the senators Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar, among others, have been listed as possibilities.

Jay Inslee the governor of Washington state and a former Democratic presidential candidate, has endorsed Joe Biden.

Inslee told Biden in an interview for the nominee’s alleged podcast: “I am proud to endorse him for being the next President of the United States for many reasons. I know he is willing to follow the science and really help us out of the crisis in COVID-19. … You will be honest with us, what we don’t have now in the White House. “

Inslee specifically said he thought Biden would effectively tackle climate change, even though the two Democrats argued during the primaries about whether Biden’s proposals went far enough to reduce carbon emissions.

“You will have a concrete action plan within the next 10 years to develop a clean energy plan, so we just don’t plan for 2050,” Inslee said in the interview, which launched today for a special Earth Day episode of the podcast. “I know you have efforts to really do things in the next 10 years and I am very excited about this.”

Inslee told the New York Times that her endorsement of Biden comes after the two had private conversations about the alleged candidate’s climate proposals. The Washington governor said he was confident Biden was “willing to aim faster and higher” in climate policy.

Trump is expected to sign an executive order today to impose a 60-day ban on immigrants seeking to live and work in the United States permanently.

The president announced the planned executive order yesterday after hinting at the proposal in an unexpected tweet Monday night. Speaking at his press conference yesterday, Trump said he can extend the request beyond 60 days “depending on current economic conditions.”

Trump said the order would only apply to green card applicants and not to temporary workers, leaving many questions about green card applications that are currently being processed.

“By pausing immigration, we will help put unemployed Americans on the front line of work as the United States reopens, so important,” Trump told reporters yesterday. “We want to protect our American workers, and I believe that as we move forward, we will protect ourselves more and more from them.”

Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin He predicted that “most, if not all” of the United States economy would reopen later in the summer.

“We look forward to when we arrive later in the summer to have most of the economy if not the entire economy open,” Mnuchin told Fox Business Network this morning.

However the Trump administration He has previously been guilty of setting high goals to reopen the economy that have not come to fruition.

The president previously said he expected the economy to “open up and rush to leave at Easter” before changing the reopening target date to May 1, even as several states extended their orders to stay home until May.

Public health experts have said that some level of social distancing will likely be necessary until a coronavirus vaccine is developed, which could take a year or more.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the house would approve the nearly $ 500 billion coronavirus relief bill tomorrow.

“We will spend it tomorrow in the House,” Pelosi told MSNBC this morning, adding that it was “absolutely urgent” for Triumph to sign the legislation.

Pelosi and minority leader of the Senate Chuck schumer released a statement yesterday saying they were “proud” of the work they had done to obtain $ 100 billion for hospitals and tests included in the bill.

The original proposal of the majority leader in the Senate. Mitch McConnell it focused solely on allocating more money to the Small Business Paycheck Protection Program, which ran out of funds last week.

Pelosi and Schumer said in their statement: “Democrats rejected this emergency package of an insufficient Republican plan that left hospitals and frontline and health workers and did nothing to help the survival of the most vulnerable small businesses in Main Street. “

The House is also expected to vote tomorrow on a proposal to allow members to vote by proxy, despite the fact that the Senate remains firmly opposed to the idea of ​​remote voting.

The House measure will allow members unable to travel to Washington in the midst of the pandemic to designate a representative (another member) to cast their vote on the proposed legislation.

Democratic House leaders have emphasized that this will be a temporary measure intended to address concerns about lawmakers, particularly those who are at high risk of developing serious illness from the virus, risking their health to travel to Washington for votes.

“We want to be able to do people’s work, despite instructions to stay away,” said the majority leader of the House. Steny Hoyer he told reporters yesterday.

House Republicans They oppose the idea and can vote against the measure en masse, but Democrats you will surely have enough support on your part to pass the measure.

If passed, it will mark a historic moment for Congress tied to the tradition that has generally resisted change, another unprecedented change for an unprecedented era.

This is Joan Greve in Washington, replacing Jo Walters.

The House is expected to take the next coronavirus relief bill tomorrow, after the nearly $ 500 billion legislation passed yesterday in the Senate by voice vote Triumph It has already indicated that it would sign the bill.

Majority leader of the house Steny Hoyer has advised members to return to Washington tomorrow morning to vote on the legislation, and the Democratic leadership has expressed approval of the bill now including $ 100 billion for hospitals and testing, as well as more loan funds for small companies.

The rapid change means that the Paycheck Protection Program, which was created by the stimulus package and ran out of money last week, could receive $ 320 billion in additional funds by Friday.

Donald Trump has uploaded to Twitter. As the debate continues about where, when and how to reopen the American economy in the midst of coronavirus pandemicThe president once again seems to be jumping the gun.

Her tweet a few moments ago speaks for itself.

Last night at the White House, coronavirus task force resource coordinator Deborah Birx said Americans should prepare to see more deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, especially in cities, as the outbreak in the United States United exceeds its peak and infection rates decline.

The deaths generally lag behind other aspects of the outbreak, CNBC reported.

“We really need to continue to come together and really, really support our healthcare providers who are still on the front lines.” she said.

Birx declined to comment on Georgia that it plans to reopen many businesses by the end of this week, only saying that federal health officials were “very clear” with states on guidelines to protect Americans from the virus.

In a different tactic, the President has made a military advertisement, as tension grows in the Middle East over renewed harassment of shipments by the Iranian military.

As my Guardian colleague Julian Borger reported just a few days ago: Iranian navy ships have approached less than 10 yards from US warships in the Persian Gulf in what the US Navy described as a series of “dangerous and harassing approaches”.