{"id":23828,"date":"2020-04-18T19:34:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T02:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23828"},"modified":"2020-04-18T19:34:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T02:34:02","slug":"national-association-of-counties-urges-congress-white-house-to-provide-immediate-relief-to-support-covid-19-response-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23828","title":{"rendered":"National Association of Counties Urges Congress, White House  to Provide Immediate Relief to Support COVID-19 Response on the Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Counties Call for Unity to Address Unprecedented Pandemic<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 As congressional leaders and the White House negotiate the interim emergency coronavirus relief package, or the COVID-19 3.5 supplemental package, the National Association of Counties (NACo) today issued the following statement. NACo Executive Director Matthew Chase said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201cCounties thank Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer for their efforts to provide direct, \u00a0immediate funding to our nation\u2019s county governments on the front lines of addressing the far- reaching health, safety and economic impacts of COVID- 19.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNow is the time for the administration and Congress to unite and help counties fulfill our vast public health, public safety and economic recovery responsibilities. We cannot afford to wait.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201cIn a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.naco.org\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/Impact-on-County-Finances.pdf\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.naco.org\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/Impact-on-County-Finances.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1587333511248000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGcOdxt2e0O5lNEBDDhdcVh7YKcZA\">report released yesterday<\/a>, NACo found that the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to massive budgetary impacts for county governments and local taxpayers, with as much as $144 billion in \u00a0lost revenue and increased expenditures through FY2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe interim emergency relief package is a good step toward helping us maintain the services \u00a0our residents and small businesses need during this historic public health and economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201cA strong federal-state-local partnership has become more crucial than ever. We call on Congress and the administration to provide direct funding to support the vital services counties deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Led by 40,000 elected county officials, counties\u2019 3.6 million employees serve more than 300 million residents, operating over 1,900 public health departments, nearly 1,000 hospitals, more than 800 long-term care facilities and 750 behavioral health centers. Additionally, county governments are responsible for emergency operations centers, human services, jail management, 911 services, coroners and medical examiners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NACo\u2019s coronavirus online hub includes county level examples of response efforts, maps tracking county and state emergency declarations and analyses of federal actions. View this resource-rich webpage at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naco.org\/coronavirus\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.naco.org\/coronavirus&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1587333511248000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGPInKlQM7s2kNLMYgWeXAXz-1cUQ\">www.naco.org\/coronavirus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counties Call for Unity to Address&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23829,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23828\/revisions\/23829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}