Congress does not have the "luxury of time" to delay the complete passage of the House's bipartisan coronavirus bill, Rep. Michael McCall said Monday.
"We are moving from containment to community-spread illness," the Texas Republican said on Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "This is not a time to wait around. We need action right now from Congress."
The bill, he added, gets free testing out to Americans who need it, as well as providing unemployment insurance for those people who are out of work because of business shutdowns, and provides meals for children whose schools have been ordered closed.
McCaul said he shared some of the same concerns that other Republicans had with the bill, because it was "thrown together" quickly, but the version House Speaker Nancy Pelosi initially presented versus what was approved on the floor "changed drastically" after she, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and the White House hammered out a deal.
Meanwhile, the next two months are "critical" in the United States, and it's important to "flatten this curve" so cases don't increase past the capability of hospitals to handle them, said McCaul.
He also said there is concern about the long lines at the nation's airports over the weekend after the president's travel ban on Europe, but said President Donald Trump also didn't get enough credit for shutting down travel from China.
"These people were held up in lines at airports like in a Petri dish," he said. "That has to be corrected."
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