Dallas Cowboys’ Jerry Jones honored to be part of coronavirus economic recovery team
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones made his first public comments about being named last week to President Trump’s advisory group on the re-opening of the economy following the coronavirus shutdown.
“Everybody has a real attitude of what can we do,” Jones said on a pre-draft video call Tuesday. “We don’t have all of the answers. It was particularly informative for me to hear all of the other people, the president included, talking about again what can we do to mitigate the health losses and mitigate the health issues.”
He also spoke of looking for ways to assist with the nation’s economic recovery. “It was a great exchange,” he said. “Got a lot of information from it myself and was hopefully able to contribute in some, small way as to my ideas.”
The full panel has been dubbed by the White House as the Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups. It includes also Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and more than 50 executives and leaders from agricultural, defense and financial service industries, as well as leaders from unions, professional sports and think tanks.
Trump announced the economic recovery team after a conference call with many U.S. pro sports leaders on April 4 to discuss how that industry has been affected by the global coronavirus pandemic.
This story was originally published April 21, 2020 at 3:42 PM.
