Health ministry is fired after a series of remarks contradict the president and are as dumb playing are. Hungry and exhausted hundreds of revenge or are rescued but rather starve to death on a regime change. So that President Donald Trump has outlined guidelines to reopen the u. S. Economy ravaged by the coronavirus and job losses swelled towards levels of the Great Depression of the 930. 00 s. And the death toll climbs above 30 3000. 00 but hes leaving it up to state governments to decide when to lift restrictions backing down from earlier claims that lifting lockdowns across the country would be his sole decision we took the greatest economy. In the history of the world and we closed it in order to win this war and were in the process of winning it now our approach outlines 3 phases in restoring our Economic Life we are not opening all at once but one careful step at a time and some states will be able to open up sooner than others some states are not in the kind of trouble that othe
Government extends lockdown instructions for at least 3 more weeks. And Brazils Health minister is fired over his handling of the coronavirus price. So join his crate of eyes crisis has tipped its economy into sharp decline quarterly Gross Domestic Product figures showed that demand for its goods and services has plummeted by 6. 8 percent in raises yet more pressure on beijing to prop up growth and made mounting job losses in 40 exports in the worlds 2nd largest economy lets go straightaway to beijing correspondent katrina youre standing by for us they could train almost 7 percent these are extremely serious figures. Thats right this is a historic plunge this is the biggest contraction weve seen for the 1st quarter growth in china since records began and its not entirely surprising it is especially due to this corona virus pandemic now chinas economy was already slowing last year was it slowed to its slowest growth since the 1970 s. Now this has really this pandemic has really brought
Last week. But that number in perspective for us. How does that compare to the worst weeks of the Great Recession . Guest it dwarfs the worst weeks of the Great Recession. It dwarfs the 3 million that came before which completely dwarfs the number in 1982. The week before was 3. 3 million and in 1982i believe the number was around 680,000. The Great Recession never reached any of those numbers. Host what are the projections for this coming week . Guest i cannot tell you that for sure. I hesitate to guess. Thatssible that get it could be higher because a lot of people have been trying to get through and have not gotten their claim approved and they are layoffs all over the united states. Host of that number, do we know how many are layoffs and people not having a job anymore versus furloughing and the fact that there will be a job promise on the other side . Guest from an insurance system perspective, a furloughing and they layoffs are pretty much identical as long as your boss tells yo
Committee will come to order. Let me think our witness for your patience. We are now ready to proceed under the five minute rule and i will give myself five minutes to begin the question phase of the hearing. Over the last year, has taken a number of actions to reduce the ability of fha borrowers to utilize down payment assistance programs from governments and cities. To purchase a home and has indicated that it intends to issue a proposed rule affecting down payment assistance in january. Secretary carson testified before this committee in june that he was not familiar with the hud data that identifies which Government Entity is providing down payment assistance and it appears that hud cannot determine which Government Programs are providing down payment assistance for any fha loan. Which is critical before attempting to issue new regulations of government down payment assistance programs. Will you commit to not moving forward any rulemaking or other Administrative Changes related to
On january 8th, 2018. For those of you who dont know anything about jamestown, we are a Nonprofit Foundation in washington that deals and specializes in eurasia with terrorism and deal a lot with china. And we appreciate the people, this program or discussion today is going to be broadcast on cspan. Were very excited about getting the visibility throughout the United States and the critical importance of this speech is that randall schrivers speech today, comments are on the record. He appeared last year at the Jamestown Foundation China Defense and security conference. His comments were off the record at the time. So this year we keep progressing in how were advancing with secretary schriver and were trying to get more attention to this issue. But let me first of all say that a couple words about randy. He is has long been known in the China Community as a robust voice on china, leading strategic thinker on china. In 2008 he cofounded the project 2049 with mark stokes. Hes been very a