If you do think there should be, the number is 202 7488000. If you dont, 202 7488001. A special line this morning to hear specifically from those who have recently lost their jobs, 202 7488002. You can send us a text, 202 7488003 is that number. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise catch up with us on , andl media, cspanwj facebook,. Facebook. You can start calling in now on those phone lines as we show you a chart about what congress and the president have approved so far from it comes to coronavirus relief. Thattrillion, including inst spending bill from back march, followed by the Families FirstCoronavirus Response act, the bulk of it coming from the , 2. 7 trillion, and the additional money approved in the paycheck protection program, additional money needed to heat that going last month. Of course, the unemployment numbers we learned on friday, stand like this as of april. 14. 7 jobless rate, 27 million in the month of april. Economic projections about jobs, unemployment expected to average 15 in the second and third quarters of 2020. 28 million fewer people will be employed this fall. 9 million fewer people will be in the labor force than projected back in january. , do you favorbers more Government Spending to boost the economy . Paragraph of the lead story today, New York Times, the nation confronts unemployment levels not seen. Ince the Great Depression pivotal choice, continue spending trillions or bet that state reopenings will jumpstart the u. S. Economy or online economy. Democrats this week are expected to bring in bill of 2 trillion in one of the main components would be new funding for state and local economies. At the coronavirus Daily Briefing yesterday, andrew cuomo was asked about the money specifically for State Governments and this is what he had to say. [video clip] everything is dependent on whether we get federal funding. There is a financial hole in the state. There is no way that the state can manage that. And we had nothing to do with it. It was all covid related, hurts everybody. It will be wholly dependent on. Hat washington does this week i hope, finally, the federal government actually passes a piece of legislation. Hat helps the states they havent taken care of Small Business, hotels, restaurants, airlines, thats great. How about the working people of this country, right . Not just corporations, but working people. Funding a State Government is a way of funding the working people. When you fund the state, i funds Substance Abuse programs, police, firefighters, hospitals, schools, remote learning. That all comes from the state. Its a function of what the federal government does. Cuomo, yesterday, at his daily Coronavirus Response briefing. Friday President Trump said that hes in no rush to move a new massive piece of legislation on friday. Larry kudlow was asked on friday about what would be next in the phase for response effort, the legislative response that the white house has to see. This is what he had to say. [video clip] is the white house on the same page of stimulus not being necessary . We have caused as far as formal negotiations go. Lets have a look at what the latest round produces. We need a month or so to evaluate that. The president as you know has put out a number of his own policy ideas. Payroll tax cuts, liability restrictions for businesses. Whether you are a large or small company, i talked to some of the big Car Companies in recent days who are going to try to reopen in a week or 10 days. Incur a lot of expenses as they deal with the virus and prevent recurrence and that will costs money. I think every nickel of that should be expensed 100 taxdiately, to provide some relief there. The president has talked about opening up america to tourism, travel, and restaurants. Providing some tax relief there. His philosophy, as you know, and i will just pause a minute on this point. Im not here to negotiate with anybody. But his philosophy from day one was lower taxes, lower regulations, opening up energy and fair trade. Those worked that and produced a Strong Economy as recently as january and heavyweight, but whatever policies we come up with will be consistent with that point of view. T rewards success we think that people should be able to keep more of what they earn. That was larry kudlow, friday. Taking your phone calls this morning about whether you favor more Government Spending to boost the economy in a week where House Democrats could introduce a bill that could be in the area of 2 trillion. Carl is up first in marina, california. Go ahead. Ahead, gosh,t, go andrew cuomo, all he has is his hand out. Hes just like california, i cant believe it. As a government employee, im retired, but im not hurting at all. Im being made to stay here and its ridiculous. The best thing the president can do is open up the economy totally. If california, new york, and illinois want to stay out of it, they can stay out of it. There has been no problem here in california. I dont know anybody, havent seen anybody. What would have helped most thet the most is if president had closed down all the media, no tv, no print media, we wouldnt be fear mongering with everybody running around. We would have had emergency broadcasting going on and i guarantee you it wouldnt it would have been over already. Host State Government, federal government . Ander i was both city county and at one time i was federal. How is the local government, what are your thoughts about what the State Government is doing out there . Caller because of people like me not taking it seriously, they get heavyhanded. Its like a little bowl here, salinas is the means city. How do you think the State Government has been doing . Caller i dont appreciate his lockdown, his heavy handedness. He keeps coming up with, we were just required to put our masks on a week ago. People started talking back and calling them bad names to the politicians locally. They get arrogant. They get nasty. They really do. Is carl, up early this morning. This tweet from the end of last , states and locals spared and pandemic democrats onthe the house budget committee. Several democrats also tweaking about state and local government, they expect it to be a major part of the next Coronavirus Response bill. Said thatfrom ride a in the United States they are being dedicated, Congress Must act or we will see millions of. Ublic servants lose their jobs state and local governments in maryland and across the country have let our fight and in the next federal response package we must provide resources to help them to continue to serve the American People are co expect to hear more comments and tweets like that from democrats this week as they look to move a new piece of legislation. We will see what happens in the building behind me. Do you favor more Government Spending to boost the economy . He likes, out of north carolina, yes. Why is that . Spending cannment be good, but it should be lower maintenance now a little bit. I have heard that human health have spent at least 4 trillion dollars now. I read the joe biden response to but the other day, personally [indiscernible] cheryl, alabama. On the line for those who say no to more Government Spending to boost the economy. Good morning. I think that checks and balances that were in place with the last bill were not well thought out. I disagree with continuing to just fund and print money for this. The country needs to open up and i think that there is going to be some safety precautions in place for that, but we cant printing ourselves out of this. There is something going on between the democratic and republican parties where they are so far apart from each other, they cant come to the middle to understand what needs to take place for the benefit of the American People. Thatave democratic states dont want to open up at all and you have got republicans taking steps that are too aggressive. Some of them i think are also being careful about how they are doing it. But you need to come to a middle ground with this. I disagree with this totally. Host whats it like down in alabama . Its starting to open up. The numbers are going up everywhere. You have to look at whats happening with the death rate and the hospitals. I see that the coronavirus, the being diagnosed with the disease, its going up, but the death rate is not increasing so much. And i may, im a selfemployed individual. I have lost my income. But again, i think there needs to be some real thinking about this instead of just buying ,eople, giving people money they need to open up this country. Host what kind of work do you do . Caller financial services. Host place with a call. Carl, oxford, in favor of additional Government Spending to boost the economy right now. Go ahead. Caller thank you for cspan. Sure, you should infuse money into the country, invest in the country if you want to keep it strong. If it is some of the money they spent for the bloated military, all the bases all over the world that we use the bully other countries, if we invested it here, we could handle any emergency, pandemic, infrastructure, anything. We are all over the world, butting into the business of other countries. We could be selfsufficient to a large degree if we took that money and invested it in our country. Thats basically it. Thank you very much. Happy mothers day to all the mothers. Echo i would certainly those comments, happy mothers day to all the mothers out there. Having this conversation in the first hour of our washington journal, do you favor more money to boost the economy . This conversation as we expect House Democrats to put on the floor this week their latest Coronavirus Response bill. A bit more from the Washington Post about what could be in a package that democrats are putting forth, building on the that wason cares act passed in late march. Along with an array of other provisions, including morse of work for health care, Postal Service, food stamp recipients, extension of Unemployment Insurance, and direct payments to individual americans supplementing the checks included in the cares act. Again, the Washington Post saying the price tag of the new bill could be up to 2 trillion. Mitch mcconnell has talked about would be ind insist the next Coronavirus Response package. Senate republicans focusing on businesses that are reopening, from lawsuits when it comes to coronavirus. This is Mitch Mcconnell talking to fox news last week. There will be in a adamic of litigation surrounding the pandemic and the coronavirus. As of one week ago, 771 lawsuits have already been filed. To trial lawyers are waiting go after everybody who tries to get back to normal and of course, the democrats say we cant possibly do that. At what i want to make it clear to them is that if there is another rescue package, it must and will include Liability Protections related narrowly to the coronavirus pandemic that has affected every single state in america. That will have to be a part of any rescue package. Host senator Mitch Mcconnell last week, he made those comments on the floor last week several times. Do you favor more Government Spending to boost economies . Right now around the country, this is jennifer from lafayette, louisiana, on the line for those who say no. Good morning. Myler thanks for taking call. I hope its ok to hedge a little bit. Host totally fine. Caller im mostly not ok with it. I havent really heard much from anyone about, you know, the theibility of spending on contemporary equivalent of like a public works administration. Something to put more americans who really need infrastructure, like a highspeed rail system. The grid that is locally inadequate like that. And would like to see Something Like that. I havent really heard it. It could be that im just not seeing it carefully enough. I would be in favor of Something Like that. Less in favor of just bloated spending willynilly. Im from a state that has been hit hard by both the virus and the economic repercussions of it. We are in the top six. At were we were at one point growing faster than anybody in the world, now we are in the top six for per capita cap cases. Potentially reopening march 15. We will wait here with the governor has to say. Our economy is heavily oil dependent. We have been hit hard by the balloon prices of oil. It will be interesting to see, a red state with a democrat for a governor and a lot of Louisiana Residents are champing at the bit open. More cautious about it. We will see what the governor has to say about it. I have seen some members of congress tweeting about the idea of some sort of Public Service, National Public service program, especially with College Students graduating right now who are likely to face perhaps the worst job market of any graduating class in decades. Going back to the Great Depression. Creating some sort of program to get those students into Public Service jobs, public works programs for Infrastructure Projects around the country. Sounds like you would support that . Caller i would absolutely. I would love to see something that put unskilled workers to work. I know that these are folks who have been disproportionately affected by the shutdown. Yes and no. Some of them are considered essential workers in as much as they have lowpaying jobs and things like that, but a lot of them who are in construction, offshore work, they have been really adversely affected. I would like to see something not just for College Graduates and still professionals, but something for unskilled laborers as well. Sam, tennessee, the line for those that say yes to more federal spending. Go ahead, sam. Caller surely there should be because of the unemployment. Stimulus is a great idea but we have to do something about the virus and. I never received my stimulus check. Small socialetting security checks for years from the same bank account and , they haveound me already gotten their checks. Whenever i try to go on the site , i have tried numerous times. When i try to go on the site it says that they dont have enough information now. Ive been getting a Social Security check into the same its like imand not eligible or Something Like that. Or try, they always say, dont ask about the stimulus check now. ,hat i would like to find out have all the Social Security people gone out . Some of the spare check people have gotten theirs. You havent seen your stimulus check yet. We have seen stories about the payment process and the problems at the irs to get the payments out and how slow that is happening, yet some members of congress are talking about a second stimulus check. This was congressman joe kennedy on friday saying that Congress Must pass meaningful direct Cash Payments for every american. If you think one time of 1200 was enough to get with the crisis you are out of touch with reality. Is it time to start a second one before the first has been paid out . Caller well i dont know about that but the people that havent filed and dont have Bank Accounts, they said it could be months. Whatever understand, i thought the Social Security people with Bank Accounts got those first. Well, they can talk about whatever they want to. Im concerned about my own self. No need to go to the site, it says that my information is not correct and it is absolutely correct. Host to luck with that, sam. We have seen some stories about the process and struggles people have had with it. On 7 30 on the east coast, asking if you are in favor of more Government Spending to boost the economy. Phone lines, 202 7488000, if you do agree, if you are in favor. If you are not. We have a line for the recently unemployed coming up to april jobs report with 14. 7 jobless rate in this country, if you are 202 ly unemployed, 7488002, we wanted her your thoughts especially. Frank on the line for those that dont favor more Government Spending. Good morning. Caller yes, sir. Favor of any more giveaways. The National Debt is so high now , its Something Like 4000 per taxpayer that we owe. That muchagine owing money and they are willing to bankrupt the United States, their pensions, their Social Security. There wont be more money to give out. Host let me give you the u. S. Debtn that from clock. Org. 25,000,000,000,100 and 53 billion and counting. That comes to 200,000 per taxpayer