The defenseliams on act and its use in the government. On this boat, the yaeah the bill is passed. Host good morning the Senate Approved a third economic aid package with a price tag of 2. 2 trillion dollars and it goes to the house for a vote scheduled on friday. And then, to the president s desk. We will get your thoughts on action to respond. 202737,000 you can text us with your first name, 2027488003e at or join the conversation on twitter and facebook. Let us begin with the action in the house. , democrat ofleader maryland sent a letter out to the rank and file members saying that the house will convene at 9 00 a. M. On friday to consider the bill in order to protect the safety of members and staff and prevent further threat, the republican leader and i expect the houseboat will be done by voice house vote will be done by voice vote. Members who want to come to the floor will be able to do so. We are working to ensure that those who are not able to return to washington may express their views remotely. I office will send out more information with those details. What is in this legislation . Similar to what we told you yesterday. Out, is a few more details 500 billion dollars for major corporations. In smalld 77 billion Business Loans. Hospitals, 130 billion. State governments can tap into 150 billion galt 150 billion. One time checks to americans to the tune of 1200 with a tune of additional 500 per child. Aid for education and colleges and 35 billion for transit and an Employee Benefit tax credit. Billion inso 200 this for domestic priorities including child care and assistance for seniors, and 17 billion for Distressed Companies in addition to those airline and cargo carriers. Other distressed carriers can tap into 7 billion. The text of this legislation is available. If you go to cspan. Org, you can find it there. A couple of other things to note. If you go to thehill. Com you can find the story of what is in the legislation. It includes a proposal to the first to defer federal student loan payments and includes four months of boosted Unemployment Benefits including the max increasing the maximum by 600. Your thoughts on what is in this legislation. Todd, in california, a republican. Good morning to you. Cover why does cspan covid so differently from h1n1 . It killed 12,500 americans, why didnt cspan care then . Regular flu will kill 50,000 americans, by your standard, no one would ever get on a plane again. Americans die in auto accidents, are you going to ban cars. We have positive developments. Han,virus has waned in wu hydroxychloroquine, there is very helpful treatment, but arent you obligated to report that, after all of the hysteria and alarm . Host your opinion. Cspan is not telling people not to travel or leave their homes. Those calls are being made by the state and federal governments. We are letting all of you let your state and federal government, and local government officials what they think about what they are doing to respond to respond to the coronavirus. Jeff, in wyoming, what do you think about this aid package . I called my congresswoman and spoke to her representative yesterday to congratulate her on the comments that she made on how important it was to treat the coronavirus outbreak, because the entire economy was dependent on how successful we were treating that , and the other comment i made was that i want to see an opt out provision in this checkwriting scheme that the government is imposing on all of us. I do not want money from the federal government. Resourceshave the even though i am not a high wage earner to care for myself and my family. I spoke to friends that i had yesterday, and they feel the same way. We do not want the 1200. We do not want the checks, i do not want to put the future in debt so that everyone contributes to the resurgence on the stock market. It will come back just fine if we successfully treat coronavirus. It will not come back and we will be in and out of this disaster and it will be a never ending disaster that we will be living through if we do not creep treat this epidemic. Host do you disagree with the president that we should reopen parts of the economy . Caller i can tell you right now, we have been fortunate, in some communities because of rifs elation and low populations numbers, but it is starting to appear in parts of the state, on the indian reservation in riverton and in lander, we are getting cases. Rawlins,case and wyoming. Are,hospital worker they and there is not much reporting on that and it is recurring in seeing more ofe it. Is, i am saying incredibly concerned for new york and the fact that the president is not shipping this applies that the medical people need to be able to treat people, that is absolutely irresponsible on his part and his administration. Sending thisto be stuff where it is needed when it is needed, and when we get through the outbreaks, we will have to move the equipment and personnel to other places so that we can treat this epidemic successfully. Host for you and others, you can find the latest on your state if you go to new yorktime. Com. They have an interactive map, there is wyoming and you can see the amount of cases. The cases have been reported, and at the top it is called the latest map and case counts. Jeff, in iowa, a democratic caller. Caller hello. I would just like to say i am getting tired of all of the infighting. I have voted republican and like to think that i am openminded. What i see is fighting, i think we should maybe put others before ourselves, because in the end, that is all that matters. Host bob, in maryland. Independent. Caller good morning. Noticing the map you just put up there. If you notice were all the hotspots are, that is where the ports are, and we have these chinese cargo ships bringing their cargo to the United States and offloading it and shipping it from those ports outward. How are we not to know that the products that the chinese are bringing to this country are contaminated . Look at it, see the ports . Every one of those ports are where the hotshot hotspots are. With abeing inundated chinese virus, which you might as well call it what it is, a biological weapon that these people have unleashed on the United States. You can see it plain as day for everyone in the country to say. Host i heard that point, but how do you respond to people who say no one called h1n1 the u. S. Virus . Caller then you are naive if you do not believe this came from china. Then you are naive. You are not that naive. You know where that is where it came from. Host i am asking the point of calling it a chinese virus . Caller it is a biological weapon. Do not lie to the American People until it it tell them it is not a chinese virus. The vote last night, Mitch Mcconnell held a short News Conference with reporters to talk about the passage of the bill. Heres what he told them. [video clip] i am proud to announce that not a single senator voted against this true trillion dollar rescue bill 2 trillion rescue built to save american individuals, Small Businesses, Large Businesses and provide considerable funding for the Health Care Workers and scientists, and doctors, and others trying to solve this pandemic. Writing your headline, i would say the senate has pivoted from one of the most contentious, partisan periods in the nations history to passing this rescue package 1000, allinone quarter of this year from the most partisan, divisive saying thing you can possibly do to coming together entirely, 100 of us, to meet this challenge. I think it says a lot about the senate as an institution, our willingness to put aside our to do something really significant for the country. The reasons that happened is that we are inspired by what is going on around the country. People are helping each other and looking at what makes a difference following the directions of health care professionals. This is a proud moment for the senate, and for the country, and we are going to win this battle in the very near future. [end video clip] host the majority leader after the Senate Passed the economic aid package. Our reporter tweeted out, after the post vote presser should have been done in public and why lobbyist about it before it was voted on. Mcconnell said you work here . We are the elected representatives of the American People. Mcconnell said the process was bipartisan and this was as flawless as you could expect it to be saying we had input from everyone all over the country. Chuck schumer also held a post vote News Conference. Heres what he told reporters. [video clip] i am proud of my caucus, we had such unity that there was no dissension, and that is what enabled us to improve the bill that was put on the floor. We are proud that we have established a Marshall Plan for hospitals, and our Health Care System. We are proud that we made the bill workers first, and proud funds, thereailout is accountability, oversight, and transparency, none of which were in the original. We have done a good job and changed this bill, because we were unified, and im glad the republicans realized that need. Simple, whenne is you have a crisis like this, a scourge that shakes us to our bones, private industry cannot get you out of the problem, only government can, and that is what we learned, and why we democrats were able to have such success because we believe in the government to help people and we know it is needed. We believe that the private sector is not the end all and be all. The twistgood ending, and turns were enormous, there were down moments, but those of you who kept asking are we going to get a bill, i always had faith. Because america and the American People demanded it. [end video clip] host the minority leader after the members approved 960 the economic aid to bill. This is the Third Congress has passed to respond to the outbreak. 960 insident tweeting, the senate. Congratulations america. He said he would sign the bill after the house on friday. We are getting your reaction to what they senate did yesterday, the prospects of a houseboat and a president signing the bill. Steve, south carolina, republican. Ander hello, i hope you your loved ones are doing well and being safe. I want to Say Something about the debate that occurred over the 600 increase of unemployment at dutch benefits. You were aware that charleston is a big tourist town. We just had to cancel everything, the bridge run, which is not a full marathon, but there are thousands of people shoulder to shoulder. We have a big pro Golf Tournament that we had to cancel. Concert season is here at the coliseum, all of those events have been canceled. By the way, i have a little part around onand i run concerts, and that is not a job that warrants Unemployment Benefits. I was really disappointed. I am a fiscal conservative. As fiscally conservative as jim demint was. I am a bit disappointed that tim scott and rick scott from florida arguing against the 600 increase. South carolina our weekly dollars 326 but 326. That we areguing incentivizing people not to work. That may seem that way, and i am for the benefit, and here is why. Who is to say you will get your job back . If you get those extra 600, and is not like you can blow it. Everything is closed. Hopefully, people will be spending it on necessities, bills, and may be saving it in case they do not get hired back or for the next wave of unemployment. The language could have been simple, and all the language could have had to say is if you are on your employer laid you youdue to covid19, hires back or attempts to hire you back and you do not entertain that offer that you lose your unemployment and it goes back to 326. I do not mind people making a little extra money. I agree with durbin, and i am a fiscal conservative. I do not mind people having a little extra money to get through this thing. Thank you. Host it sounds like you watched a lot of the debate happening in washington yesterday. Caller i have watched this thing unfold on the start. I tell you, i was disappointed with what nancy came to town with, and i do not know how much was in there. I was watching the military talk. You know, several years ago Unemployment Benefits were reduced across the country. I am not even sure the state has enough staff to manage the claims that will start hitting their doors. Host a lot of the websites are crashing due to the volume of people trying to file. Caller it is going to be a big mess. Host it sounds like you lot watch a lot cspan. Caller i watch cspan all the time. I do not watch cnn and fox. I like cspan because you offer no partisan commentary. You let us hear the hearings, and hear what is going on in the house and various committees and subcommittees. That is where i get my news. True no spinshe own. Host what steve was watching and referred to was a News Conference held by a few senators who, as he was noting, were upset with the rise raise in Unemployment Benefits to 600. If you missed that and want to hear the argument they made, go to cspan. Org. Also on her website in the far right corner is the link to the text. It is 800 and some pages. And searchcontrol f for things you want to search floor four. If you hear something is in this legislation, search the bill yourself. Sorry,to herein robert is next. Democratic caller. Caller i have a question i do not understand, it seems like they keep talking about the 1200 for individuals, that is that just for wage earners or does that include people like me on Social Security without that, i cannot add any extra money to the economy. All of my money goes to pay bills. Host i do not know the answer, and if you go to our website. Caller i do not have the internet. Host i do not know the answer, and maybe we will try and find that. I have not seen reporting on that on the newspapers i read this morning, but that does not mean that someone has not found out that information. You can try the Social Security and see if you, can find information. I want to share this story with you from the Washington Times, a comparison with past stimulus bills. If you look at the 2009 recovery, the original price tag was 787 billion. The final cost was 840 billion. The 2008 release program, the original price tag was 700 billion. The final cost was 31 billion after Companies Pay back the loans. Hurricane katrina assistance, five bills totaling 94. 8 billion. We do not have the final cost. Many rescuence, bills were passed, and this is a billion to some, 40 combat terrorism. 21. 7 billion debris removal and recovery, and they increase continue to increase. Last Year Congress shored up the victim, compensation fund. Indiana, an independent. You are up. Caller can you tell me, does the bill cover people on Social Security and a pension. Host the previous caller asked that question and i do not now. You are on Social Security . Caller yes. Host and you are looking for a check of 1200. That would help you . Caller it would definitely help. Host do you own your home, do you pay rent . Where are you having difficulty paying your bills because of coronavirus, or were you having difficulty before this . Caller my husband passed away recently, which cut my Social Security and half because of his payment, so it is like i am just curious, will i get a check to . Elp host i am sorry for your loss. James, north carolina, republican caller. Your turn. Commenti just wanted to on what Chuck Schumer said. He said that the government was not the end all he said that private was not the end all be all. With this coronavirus and shutting down so many industries, youve got to let people get back to work. They have got to implement some sort of safety precautions, and do some things differently. People have got to get back to work. We will move on. Hampshire,new independent caller. Good morning. Caller good morning, am i on . Ok, i would like to see some of the 2 trillion, because it could help end the coronavirus. It would help that, and it would also help the economy by having the overthecounter, athome diabetes test strips. There could be overthecounter, inexpensivenavirus test strips. In each day a person could use a strip, and if it showed no coronavirus, than they could go to work or do what they wanted. If the strip showed having the coronavirus, than the person would selfquarantine. They do not have that yet, that would be terrific, i think. Host ok. And answer to the previous callers for what this means if you are on Social Security. The wall street journal reports and the checks found that the checks are available to rely who have no income or on supplemental security income from the Social Security administration. Those payments would be in addition to a broad expansion in Unemployment Benefits extended to nontraditional employees including kid work gig workers and freelancers. Allen, in indiana, democratic caller. Caller good morning, and thank you. To thank youd like and your fellow hosts for your and tolerance with the American Public who call in and get aggravated and say crazy staff. I appreciate your demeanor. Thank you for that. Thatoint i want to make is i was looking at Mitch Mcconnell , who has fought tooth and nail when president obama was trying to get the other bills passed, billion,s like 750 and they wanted more. Tarc wast to be clear, at the tail end of george w. Bush. Started, but in 2009 there was another bill that was passed. You remember Mitch Mcconnell said we will do nothing to help this president succeed in 2008. And they fought him for it. To, he is all for thi