That and so much more on making money. Charles as President Trump tests positive for covid19, lawmakers around d. C. Are being affected as well. Edward lawrence has the very latest on whats happening in washington. Edward . Reporter charles, a lot going on here. I can tell you that any white house official within ten feet of a camera is going there and telling everybody that its business as usual related to the work that goes on here at the white house. I can tell you that the white house physician says the president is working uninterrupted. He does not have to disrupt what he is doing because hes having mild symptoms. This is the press secretary, White House Press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany about 30 minutes ago. Listen. This morning and this afternoon, were focused on the president. Were having to hold him back a little here because hes hard at work, he spoke to senator mcconnell today, senator graham, i just spoke with the chief of staff and President Trump has talked to him about e
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The governors of new mexico, kansas and guam as well as douglas holtzeakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office. This virtual hearing is just over four hours. The committee will come to order. Authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. Before we begin todays hearing, i want to remind you of a few matters including some regulation accompanying House Resolution 965. I would ask all members to keep themselves on me was. This will minimize disturbances not being recognized with background noise they made only again one at a time. If you are participating today please remain with us during the hearing t that she recommends vendors identify themselves and facilitate the chairs recognition. I would also ask members to be patient this hearing is entitled the need for Financial Aid to americas states and territories during the pandemic. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement of the 189,000 people have lost their lives to the virus las
And extended Unemployment Benefits until january 2021. The heroes act will provide significantly more funding to cities and towns and also would clarify treasury guidance that currently prevents State Governments from using [indiscernible] alternative bills provide zero dollars to states, zero dollars for financial assistance, and clawed back hundreds of billions of dollars that could be used to support struggling businesses. In addition the president cut funding to states. The protestsike against racism and Police Brutality in the streets in many communities. Families across the country suffer [indiscernible] about the challenges their faces and the response needed from the federal government in this international crisis. I recognize the Ranking Member of the committee for four minutes. I think the chairwoman for yielding. Here we are again. We are having hearing about a bill the house passed four months ago that has no chance of becoming a law. The committee is being used to prioriti
Abramowicz and tom keene in new york. Good morning on Bloomberg Radio across the nation. Good morning on Bloomberg Television worldwide as well. Theferro, without question most mysterious jobs report ive ever witnessed. Jonathan we talked about the wide range all morning. Lets talk about it again. At the top, 2. 4 million. Thats the high estimate. Below, 100,000. The pace of the recovery is slowing. I wonder if we have seen more evident if we are seeing more evidence of that a little later this morning. Tom i thought of one of your good questions earlier, the idea of this shift to the new unemployed. Forget about furloughed. Forget about all of the other language. It is people terminated. Lisa people are becoming permanently laid off. Initially it was temporary. My question today is going to be is bad news good news, and is good news bad news . The idea that if we get a worse than expected report, we will get into this for some as we will get impetus for some kind of fiscal support we