Changes to the Supreme Court and federal judiciary. Later, Jessica Anderson from here to Jackson Anderson from Heritage Action for america talks about top issues in campaign 2020. Is the washington journal for september 9. Joe biden is expected to be in warren, michigan today to talk about jobs and the economy a day before President Trump is expected to visit the same state. The trend campaign announcing stops in reno and las vegas, nevada. Senateant the expected to take a test vote tomorrow on something that would authorize five hundred billion dollars of Coronavirus Relief, far smaller than democrats would like to see. When it comes to congressional spending, is that something you would like to see . Let us know. If you are unemployed, call 202 7488000. If you are a Small Business owner or employee, 202 7488001. All others, call us at 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 7488003 and post on twitter and facebook. Set up theto conversation is zach cohen with National Journal and it covers the senate for that publication. Thank you for joining us. Dollartart about the differences between what the senate is proposing and what the house would like to see. That mitch bill mcconnell introduced is much smaller, not just smaller than the house bill, but even smaller than what republicans had put forward, which was closer to 1 trillion back in july. About five hundred billion dollars, maybe even less. And includes coats to cares act to offset costs. Idea was to coalesce the Senate Republican conference around one bill. It seems like he will get that. Host when it comes to the justification of the small figure, go a little bit deeper into the majority leaders thinking. Guest a lot of republicans have been concerned about the spending that has taken place, at least 3 trillion if you take together the cares act and some other funding packages. A lot of that money has not even been sent out yet. It still remains in the treasury or in the fed. A lot of republicans have said that, lets wait until that is spent first. This bill republicans are putting forward now would fill in the gap in funding that would run out, and things like the paycheck protection program. Host for the people at home. Maybe they have received a stimulus or assistance check, maybe they have not. What does this do as far as getting money in their hands . Guest it does not include any direct checks like we saw with the cares act. In includes a restart of the federal unemployment boost. Rt of includes a resta the federal unemployment boost. In terms of direct assistance, there is less. A lot of this is focused on funding for schools, vaccines, therapeutics. Pelosi talk speaker with members of the white house, including the treasury secretary about what another relief package my do. Guest mark meadows was talking to a senator over the weekend trying to get people involved, white house chief of staff. They have been on the same page as treasury secretary mnuchin, who was talking about it on sunday on fox news. The Senate Republicans in the white house are working hand in glove on this, while democrats on the others of the aisle put out a joint statement before this bill was released saying it was insufficient. So you have the two parties on opposite sides of this. I expect a partyline vote when this comes to the senate tomorrow. Host those that might be package, a approve a factor might be total spending and the deficit. Are those real considerations, real topics these days considering the previous spending congress has approved . Guest it is remarkable that we are talking about a three hundred billion dollars to 500 , buton relief package certainly the coronavirus pandemic has unique needs and it democratsthing that and republicans recognize as necessary to bolster the economy and the health care response. There are significant concerns about the national debt. It is at its highest point since at least world war ii. In the aftermath of the great depression. So certainly that is congress that is Something Congress will have to deal with in the months ahead. Host walk us through this effort by the senate. Guest mcconnell came to the floor tuesday to introduce this bill. This is something they have been working on for a couple weeks over the august recess. The senate will again leave town and october ahead of the november elections. In october ahead of the november elections. This is not a vote on the bill itself, but would be a vote to end the filibuster to advance the bill in senate parlance. We expect it will fail. It might get 50 one votes, but according to senate rules, it needs 60 votes to pass a legislative hurdle. The democrats voting against this, with the exception of one or two at most, it will go back to the white house and negotiations with nancy pelosi. That is the main show. A reporter with the National Journal walking us through what is expected. Mr. Cohen, thank you for your time. We will show you some figures, but we want to get your thoughts on this first hour about this additional coronavirus spending. Is that something you would like to see or not . If you are unemployed, 202 7488000. If you are a Small Business owner or employee, 202 7488001. Our line for all others. You can call us at 202 7488002. If you want, text us at 202 7488003. If you like, you can post on our facebook page, our twitter feed. Dan in lady lake florida patrick in lady lake, florida on our line for others. Your first up you are first up. Go ahead. Caller thank you for taking my call. First off, i am a little surprised that cspan does not rerun the footage of when hello when President Trump, oh, it is all a hoax, deep state, fake. He does not follow any of the guidelines. Journalthe wall street yesterday that sturgis Motorcycle Club made a super spreader and will cost an estimated 12 million. Host the Senate Spending package, what would you like to see or not see . Caller nothing. How about a little personal responsibility . I know cspan used a yak about that a lot, along with deficit reduction and activist judges. These churches, come get us money. Host sturgis, south dakota. An unemployed person there. Hello. Caller i was working out at the cap ground during that stupid rally, and now i am unemployed and i am a disabled veteran. I was wondering about the package. Are they going to give us that, disabled people more money . What do they plan on doing . Have. You received anything previous when it comes to coronavirus assistance . Received 1200 dollars extra on my Social Security check. I got shot up pretty bad in vietnam, so anyway. Host what was done with that extra money you said you got when it comes to what you are doing there . Iller i paid my bills and paid some money on my wifes cremation. She died about two months ago and we were together about 31 years so im still paying on that. The v. A. Did not cover her burial and the cremation, so i have been paying on that. I almost have it paid off. But i sure could use a little more help with my food instead of buying food. I have been paying off her bills. Host that is lonnie in south dakota. 500 billion dollars is what you heard zach cowan talk about this proposal from the senate, short of what was proposed by the house. It would include three hundred dollars of Unemployment Benefits that would run through december. The Postal Service, a billion dollar grant to then. When it comes to coronavirus, 16 billion 20 nine billion dollars for vaccines and therapeutics. Some going to schools, about a third to schools currently conducting in person learning. Many students doing Virtual Learning these days. And it would include Liability Protections and it changes to the ppp program, which you heard zach cowan talk about too. You can talk about the price , allthe effort of spending those things if you wish, on the line. Philadelphia, pennsylvania. We heard from an unemployed person there, marvin. Caller i am trying to wrap my head around this. 600nk first of all, the is over the top. Once they gave that money out and they said that people do not want to work, i guess people do not want to work when they are making more on unemployment. Now, going forward, the 300 extra, i guess that is over the top too. They should just keep unemployment on the regular rate and go with that. I think they are doing it all to generate the economy, which the extra money is doing generation of the economy. The people that talk about the 600, i think that is a bunch of hogwash, because the public did not ask for that much money. The government gave that much money so they could generate the economy so things would not go so bad. Come election time, they trumply i aint no lover or biden lever, but trump will get elected. Biden lover, but trump will get elected. Host you are currently collecting unemployment . Have you seen an increase on the federal level . Guest there is a caller there is a hold on it. Host why would there be a hold on it . Caller the fema program. There was a disaster. They have to hook up the system to distribute the money. Host gotcha. That is marvin in philadelphia. When it comes to previous spending, the three phases are relatively straightforward. A point three billion dollars in response to the president s 2. 5 billion request. And the estimated two. 1 trillion dollars for the cares act. On its face, that is the largest covid19 response of any government in the world, according to columbia university. In fact, it is larger than the entire economic input output of italy, brazil, several countries. It talks about the spending side. The nonpartisan commission for a responsible federal budget estimates the current coronavirus spending and the effects of the recession will contribute to a budget deficit. In bellevue, washington on our line for others, you are next. Good morning. Retired. Am however, i do have a son that was or still is collecting unemployment that is living with us. One of the things as far as the 600 went, he was trying to keep up with paying his medical insurance. That was so much money that took out of it. The 600. To try to pay for everything else. You know, he had moved back in with us for a while, just to save so he would not have to pay the rent. I think, first of all, they should send everybody the 1200 like they did. People like us are hurting. My husband and i have not even been out of the house thanks to the people that do not even consider others by Wearing Masks and thinking of other people instead of themselves. See that your son increase on unemployment on top of what the state may offer in terms of unemployment assistance . Caller he received the 600. He is not right now. It is just down to the regular. Host was he receiving that on top of what Washington State would offer, if he claimed assistance from Washington State . Caller well, no. He just received the flat 600. Host ok. We will hear from another unemployed person. Nicholas, las vegas, nevada. Go ahead. You are on. Caller yeah, i think they just need to continue i mean, i think that was a great bill. I do not think they need to do anything to it, they just need to extend it until this blows over. Host one concern you heard zach cowan talk about from some republicans is that some of the money appropriated has not even been spent yet. I justeah, i mean mean, you know, because people that were employed, they depended on quality of life. That six hundred dollars, you know what i mean, just gave everybody you know, everybody who is middleclass, it gave them a comfort zone for this pandemic. They come out of that, and some people do not have jobs like myself. My quality of life right now has because idown simply am only getting state benefits and im not working. Host you do not see any federal bump as far as . Caller i did, but i had to call pay all my bills. There was back pay and that. All the unemployment systems were backed up because of the large number. I have no idea, man, you know . I just know my quality of life. I was getting the 600 but they stopped it. What was it, july 31 . Host what is the situation in las vegas as far as your employment . Were you part of the Casino Industry or anything related . Caller i was working for a recycling company. Host and things have changed as far as where you are at. Caller exactly. I have not gone back to work. I have contacted them and i do not really know what is going on. That i thought i had a job and i thought i was furloughed, but im thinking maybe these guys are getting shut down. I have no idea. I just know i am only getting state unemployment, which is basically just a couple hundred bucks a week, which is not enough for a decent quality of life. One of theegas is stops the president will make as part of his campaign. Reno as well. Joe biden in warren, michigan expected to talk about matters when it comes to jobs and the economy. Follow all campaign related stuff on our website, cspan. Org. Bill king on twitter says coronavirus spending should be our top priority. That and a stimulus check. Ris on Facebook Says spending as far as getting fast tests andte giving american ppe manufacturers tax credit for bringing ppe production back. Someone else, not as long as there are helpwanted signs everywhere. Yes, i hope the American People get through this, focus on direct payments until this is over. You heard about zach cowan talking about this proposal. [video clip] oh bill is not a sweeping, multitrillion dollar plan to rebuild the entire company in republicans image. It does not even contain every single relief policy that republicans ourselves think would help in the short term. I am confident the democrats would feel the same way. The American People do not need us to keep arguing over what might be perfect. They need us to actually make a law. So Democratic Leaders are perfectly free to come out here and keep up their playbook from these past months. Just blast away. Blast away in bad faith, call names, and complain about the infinite number of things this proposal does not do. Maybe they will bring back there goldilocks act and say our multihundred billion dollar proposal is too small or too skinny, even though democrats just passed a piecemeal bill for the Postal Service that ignored everything else. Piecemeal bill for the Postal Service that ignored everything else. Democrats can do all that if they want to, madam president , i am just sad they are already criticizing this bill today before they have even read it, before it had even done put out. Before it had even been put out. This just seems to reinforce that only one party seems to want any bipartisan outcome at all. It is easy to tell, in washington, whether somebodys end goal is political posturing or an outcome. One way or another, what democrats do will be revealing. Host lets hear from ella in texas. Go ahead, ella. You are on. Caller first of all, i will say i am an unemployed person in the hospital industry. Hospitality industry. I want to address what we just heard. Whatever he said was totally misleading. I have been watching this since i have been sitting at home the last few months, not working. And the president told them to bring a bill that just covered the post office. If thats whats, they did, he needs to say this is what has happened. Asked thesident he president. That is what they brought. They are trying to get something out here for us, for the unemployed, to pay our bills. In the hospitality industry, that extra 600 did help because there is no way in the world i could have lived off of 600 a inth, which is basically would have been basically what i would have been getting had the extra 600 had not been added to my unemployment. I would not be able to pay my gas, my mortgage, my daughters tuition. So that 600 did help me. When people say there is help signs out there, do you want me to go out there and work for hour when for 10 an i was making 40 an hour . Host those types of jobs not returning. Thats what youre saying. Caller right now theyre not. I am still unemployed. I am still waiting for my job to call me back. People are still not flying the way they were, staying in hotels the way they were. Notat this point, i feel working. Mcdonalds. Rk you i do not work in my local grocery store. I did not work at 711. Had a very good job my husband is working. So that has been a blessing for us, but i have not. Host ok. Ella telling us her story there in texas. Lets hear from arkansas. Our line for others. We will hear from bob. Caller yeah, this is bob from arkansas. Host you are on. Go ahead. Caller i just had a complaint about the way the democrats are handling this whole issue. It is like they do not even care about the people. Host what makes eisai that . What makes you say that . Caller well, they have got childish arguments when people need that money. That and so youre saying money should be approved, then, or at least this additional package. Caller yes. As soon as possible. To work, cannot pay the bills. And they want to argue about stupid stuff. s as smalle figure as what Mitch Mcconnell was offering, even though mr. Cohen says that is not going anywhere, do you think that is better . Caller i think that would be fine. At least the people would have something. Host an editorial in the Washington Post takes a look at this issue. Moving congress is how they talk about this effort by this latest proposal by the senate. Thatg the jobs report recently came out was no cause. Or complaint larry kudlow said the economy told live with the failure strike a deal because it is on a selfsustaining recovery path. Nor is there a cause for going small on the next round of fiscal support. At the same time, Democratic Leaders must take changing realities into account as they negotiate. Their insistence on renewing a six hundred dollar weekly supplement to an Insurance Benefits no longer seems justifiable given labor market conditions. That is the e