Basis and do coordinate. I would just comment that ive worked closely with ambassador lighthizer on the china agreements and forced Technology Transfer is a major issue that weve been combatting. Fair, but weve heard u. S. Government officials of both administrations for two decades talk about agreements that are eventually going to have feet and they almost never do ambassador lighthizer has been a bit of a pitbull on this piece of it, but discussing it in the interagency process isnt the same as us pushing to help huawei and their state based actors to understand i. P. Theft has real consequences not just press releases i would just say and i know that the chairmans gavel implies im at time, but the Intelligence Community Oversight Committee of the community in the legislature, this is an increasingly bipartisan issue that republicans and democrats believe that its important for us to be holding these faux private Sector Companies in china to more account and the Chinese Government n
Massive local tax increases. Anyone of those alone threatens to make this economic crisis even worse and the combination of all three is almost unthinkable. The bureau of labor statistics just reported that state and local governments laid off nearly one million workers in april. That is almost one million firefighters, police officers, teachers, Emergency Personnel that should be on the front lines of the Public Health crisis but are sidelined instead. Chairman powell, let me start by asking, do you agree that our economy will get worse if state and local governments are forced to lay off even more firefighters, teachers, any and Emergency Personnel . Let me say what we are doing. We have a liquidity facility that is there to address the shortterm liquidity needs that these entities have because of their loss of revenue due to the effects of the pandemic. That is really the tool that we have. I appreciate that. That is not my question. States,ion is if counties, and municipalities con
More work from home. It is thursday, may 7. You are watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Welcome. Im Brian Sullivan thank you for joining us on this 75th anniversary of ve day 1945, world war ii and europe ended. Looking at the market and your money. Setting up their thursday morning. We are seeing futures with potentially a rebound in gain. Getting to more on that in one second this would also regain like we said what we lost yesterday. Up nearly 3 this week alone weekly jobless claims are out. They are expected to show another 3 million americans have filed for unemployment. We are nearing 30 Million People out of work. Markets wont move on that it is widely expected. Obviously a difficult number to hear we have breaking news on United Health the health insurancer announcing it will provide 1. 5 billion premium rebates. Joining many Auto Insurance Companies Offering rebounds as people are simply not consuming their products right now we
Industries association. Sen. Wicker all right, we will begin, and we appreciate people working with us on this partially remote, and partially in person hearing on a very important topic. The covid 19 pandemic has affected the normal operation of every Public Institution in our country. Including, as you can see, the legislative branch. I thank my colleagues and witnesses per for participating in todays hearing, which is the first of many covid19related oversight hearings that this committee will conduct. We will accomplish the business in accordance with the guidelines established by the rules committee, and in consultation with the office of the attending physician. And i want to thank my colleague and Ranking Member, senator cantwell, for her cooperation in this regard, and for all of our staff. The committee today convenes to discuss the state of the Aviation Industry. Witnesses, which are limited in number by the guidance we received from the senate, include nic calio, president a
To this virtual hearing the honorable steven mnuchin, secretary of the department of treasury and the honorable jerome powell, chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system. We will receive testimony from the secretary of the treasury and the chairman of the Federal Reserve as required under title iv of the cares act. Congress has appropriated 3 trillion to protect and support americans to fight the pandemic and also to stabilize the infrastructure of our economic system. A large portion of this funding is authorized under title iv of the cares act which provides resources for loans, guarantees, and other investments from treasury and the Federal Reserve 13. 3 emergency Lending Facility and programs in support of eligible businesses, states, municipalities, and tribes. Title iv of the cares act provided 454 billion as an infusion into the Exchange Stabilization fund to support the Federal Reserves emergency lending facilities that facilitate liquidity in the marketpl