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Vice president pence and members of the task force. Commentsresidents live here on cspan. A conversation about immigration policy amid coronavirus. Camila dechalus of cq roll call. Good morning to you. We want to start with you on the u. S. Mexico border. What is or is not happening when it comes to border enforcement . The Trump Administration announced it was going to close the northern and southern border to nonessential travel. They invoked a statutory law the gave the government ability to ...

An exact number of essential employees, hard to come by. 49one estimate tomorrow million to 62 million workers. That is an estimate from the Brookings Institution that relied on department of Homeland Security designations of essential. About 7 million employees at Grocery Stores, pharmacies, and bigbox stores. When it comes specifically to the state of california, the Public Policy institute of california estimates that in a typical year, roughly one third to one half of californias labor force...

A term we have heard talking about essential frontline federal employees. Give us an idea of who some of those employees are. What are their jobs . Guest some of those employees would be tsa. Some of our Veterans Administration workers. Would be some of our prison workers. Some of those would be essential personnel. Guest what are you hearing from those frontline workers during the crisis . Guest more than anything is , protection. They feel that they are inadequately protected. While they have ...

Rafael espinal from Freelancers Union talks about the impact of the pandemic on the selfemployed. Washington journal is next. Good morning, this is washington journal, for april 2. We want to hear from you about your level of confidence in the u. S. Health versus to treat those affected by coronavirus. What you are seeing and experiencing in your community and we especially want to hear from you if you are a Health Care Worker in the field and you want to give your perspective on the u. S. Healt...

And their community. We are very honored to do the work with we do. People what the administration for Community Living does. Guest we have about three dozen different programs. We have a research institute. We offer a number of Community Support services that offer ways adults and people with disabilities can remain healthy in their communities. We provide things like meals, transportation, legal services, independent living assistance, transitions out of facilities, really a wide range of thin...

And medical officers at Rikers Island have also tested positive. We are seeing this disease spread very quickly behind bars. Jails and prisons, as many know, our petri dishes for the transmission of covid19. Host social distancing being described as the best way to combat coronavirus. Can one social distance behind bars . Guest it is virtually impossible to do all of those we are doing in the community. Trying to reduce the contagion of this disease. Many of us are washing our hands for 20 secon...

In february. We started over a year ago. Looking at the administration 2018 bio Defense Strategy. What we found in that report is the strategy [indiscernible] to coordinate the fragmented effort, there are over two dozen es. Sidentially appointed it was a pretty well put together effort but there were another of challenges we saw. One of those things was setting priorities across all of the different agencies with their different budgets. Frankly, we are seeing a lot of these challenges come to ...

You miss any of our live coverage of the governments response to the coronavirus outbreak, watch it any time at cspan. Org coronavirus. From daily briefings by the president and the White House Task force to updates from the hardest hit states, it is all there. Use the maps to track the viru and track cases county by county. It is an easy way to watch cspans unfiltered coverage of this pandemic. Our first guest of the morning joins us from washington, d. C. , the editor of health care dive to ta...

Government is proactively telling people not to go to work , we cant give people the incentives and the aligned job skills to try to reenter the workforce. That would happen in a later phase. Right now, we are just trying to help families and households make ends meet so there is not as much financial suffering in the economy. We need to think about this into different phases. Right now we are in the relief phase and then we will start opening things up and what kinds of incentives will be neede...

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