Rubio: If Airlines Get Shut Down Over Coronavirus ‘We’re Going to Have a Very Different Country’

Tuesday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) cautioned against shutting down airlines to help combat the spread of the coronavirus.

Rubio told “Fox & Friends” as he discussed the upcoming Senate vote for a coronavirus relief bill that shutting down airlines would result in a “very different country.”

“[W]e will look to fix in a bill that will start here in the Senate that we need to pass very quickly and that I think we will be focused on, number one, allowing airlines to continue to operate because if we shut down the airlines, we’re going to have a very different country,” he explained. “We’re not going to be able to move people around — important trips that need to happen for public health and for national security and so forth.”

Rubio also stressed the importance of Democrats and Republicans working together to help prevent the spread.

“This is going to be written about 100 years from now. This is a global event that will fundamentally change the structure of the world political order, the world economic order for a generation,” he advised. “This is a huge event that’s happening, and for our country, it’s very impactful. That makes partisan bickering and potshots at this point trivial.”

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