Protection program and businesses of all sizes have started to use the tax tools that we provided for their liquidity. But in that time the critics have also done what they do best. They criticize. The need came has seized on an opportunity to perpetuate every negative story that critics can manufacture. You can imagine my surprise when democrats criticized the net operating loss carryback provisions in the cares act. Because oddly democrats previously supported the last three bills where we expanded the net operating loss carrybacks in 2002, 2005, and even in 2009 with all democrat rule. So i dont recall in any of those instances any partisan attacks from democrats about this previously bipartisan, antirecessionary policy tools. So why now . Sadly, that irresponsibility has led our democratic colleagues in the house to pass legislation that would take back important tax tools that we have provided in the cares act to the tune of 254 billion, and thats a tax increase on the american bu
Recognized, those of us in the senate and the house, recognized that we had to take special effort to protect the economic viability of the Small Businesses in our country. They did not have the reserve capital. They did not have the resiliency in order to deal with this prolonged downturn in our economy. Eight weeks ago we came together, democrats and republicans by a 960 vote and passed the cares act. I was proud that a significant part of the cares act responded to the needs of Small Businesses. We had a working group, a bipartisan working group. Senator rubio, the chairman of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee. Im the ranking democrat. We were joined by senator shaheen and senator collins. And we worked on an expedited way in order to see what we could do to help Small Businesses get through covid19. And the cares act provides new opportunities for us to help Small Businesses during this unprecedented disaster. We passed the p. P. P. Program, Paycheck Protection Prog
Process. He was overwhelming confirmed in the committee process. I look forward to him transitioning from him being a great attorney in our state to being a great judge, to be able to serve the people of oklahoma and of the United States on the federal bench. So im looking forward to that vote be completed. In the days ahead, we will celebrate decoration day. Decoration day was first declared locally in 1866 after the civil war. It was a day to remember those who gave their lives in battle for our country by decorating the graves and remembering their sacrifice. Now we call it memorial day. We remember all those who have given their lives for our nation. Its, unfortunately, not those who just gave their lives long past. Unfortunately, its still in the painful present. Last weekend i sat in an agonizing funeral for tec sergeant roberts, who was killed by rocket fire just two and a half months ago. He was in the process of getting others to safety when a rocket took his life. He is the f
There. Sometimes the positions are being cut. This is creating an atmosphere where folks really dont know what comes next. And its impossible for anyone to speculate, because weve never been through a situation like this. Weve never seen this before. So certainly things are being pushed back, things are being put on hold and no ones quite sure what the next step is going to be. All right. Thank you. Ive been reading axios a. M. In just a little bit. You too can sign up for the newsletter at signup. Axios. Com. That does it for us on this wednesday morning. Im yasmin. Morning joe starts right now. The world depends on are the w. H. O. To work with countries to ensure that Accurate Information about International Health threats is shared in a timely manner, and if its not, to infieldly te independently tell the world whats happened. They failed in this duty and must be held accountable. You have 15 people and 15 in a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero. Thats a pretty goo
Lawrence. Tonight the president of the United States has said something that would command agreement to the resistance of the president of the United States. Donald trumps most unforgiving critics agree with the spirit of the statement the president gave today even if they might choose different words. As with most trump statements, it need not be said that no president in history said anything like that. Today donald trump actually said his white house staff, quote, are traitors and cowards. For any white house staffers for whom working for donald trump wasnt shameful enough today, they can now add to their shame that even donald trump thinks they are traitors and cowards in a tweet this afternoon, the president said the socalled leaks coming out of the white house are a massive overexaggeration put out by the Fake News Media in order to make us look as bad as possible. With that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are so the leaks from the Trum