Without the sort of checks to make sure there are no and unwarranted executive compensation, and right now, democrats are really ofusing on the amount disclosure of some of those funds. Right now, the language in the bill prevents americans from where those funds are going for a full six months in stabilizeof trying to the markets. Any discussion under way that that . Icans would give on so Chuck Schumer said last progresst there is the senate hasnt reconvened yet, theyll do that at noon and a couple of procedural votes in hopes of this package forward but there are negotiations ongoing not just with mcconnell and schumer, but nancy pelosi the backer of the house, flew from San Francisco over the weekend to be a part of these talks. So everybody says that they are progress. The question of whether they can make up these final few inches or yards depending on how you see them in the next few hours. This there language in proposal that would prohibit corporations from buying back stocks if they receive this money . There is. This is something that President Trump over the weekend actually said that he was very much in something the democrats have been calling for for a long time. Senates something that republicans got on board with, they recognized there was an interest in making sure that any any taxpayerat got funds that were struggling during the fallout of the were not going to use that to essentially line their pockets and make sure that money was going towards keeping the business up and running and haders that were affected, their hours cut or were laid off would receive those benefits. Is that democrats found a line in the measure that said the treasury secretary can waive those responsibilities at any time. Negotiation has changed, and its unclear as were talking now that that provision is still in there, but as of last night that was a major concern for many senate democrats. What do republicans and democrats agree on in this nearly 2 trillion package . Most popular provision is understandably the idea of theing money directly in hands of americans who may be having trouble making ends meet during this essentially, what is an economic shutdown. Is arown jewel proposal 1,200 check that would go out to families. I believe the treasury as early asaid early april, april 6th, and go the would or200 for a single taxpayer 2,400 if husband and wives are filing jointly. And then theres additional about 500 for every dependent, every child in that family and the idea is to help the economy going during this time and essentially ofvide people a standard living while maybe theyre not working or theyre otherwise back. To cut we have several callers this not suspendwhy payments, credit card payments, mortgages for those people who are struggling with have lost who their jobs, etc. . Has that been part of this discussion . I certainly get plenty of emails from businesses that are saying if youre having trouble making your mortgage or bills, talk to us, well work through it. I think this is something that corporations recognize is going be a reality for them and thats why also in this package, there are provisions to provide loans, not just for the sort of businesses, airlines, that weve but alsoing about, smaller businesses. Managers and property that are reliant on that money as well to come from the people their properties to so everything has a sort of domino effect and so the goal it seems from this package to make sure that not just consumers, people that those tumors are reliant on will still need in funds they order to function. Zach cohen is here to take your questions about the senate and the house and thenose democrats and republicans on capitol hill right behind us to respond to outbreak. Virus if you live in the eastern part country. Medical professionals we have a third line for you this morning. It will be interesting to hear medical professionals about congress to do in the administration. So zach cohen, run through what the happen today when Senate Adjourns at noon. When the Senate Reconvenes at noon. Reconvenes, excuse me me. I made the same mistake earlier. There will be three votes. The first two will be voter threshold, 51 senators. Now, that may be difficult are fivehere republicans that are currently selfquarantined because one, paul, did test positive for coronavirus and so those first two votes will at noon, and then shortly after some of these votes have been held open for as long as surean hour to make senators arent too close together in an institution where you cant do vote by video conference. Its not quite as advanced as washington journal. And then the third vote which the vote from of yesterday. Debate be a vote to end on the or to begin debate on the package, it would give hours of debate on this trillion dollar plus and that would essentially kick a final passage vote to sometime later this week. Were not expecting passage today, but certainly, potentially some procedural advancements that are important to making sure the package gets senate to the house and eventually to the president s desk. Any lawmakers telling you or theyreleagues concerned about taking a final vote later in the week when the responded immediately to the vote last night . This is something majority mcconnell was talking about on the floor last night immediately after that notedural vote failed he that the futures market was already down and when they tried night and set the 9 00 a. M. Time table, in order under way,vote minority leader is the umer mcconnell said what youre doing is keeping the anotherin suspense for three hours rather than having the votes at 9 00 as a show of force to say hey, we can get done. So certainly the markets are a big factor here, but democrats keep coming back to this idea that its important on a package this large, 1 trillion is hard to wrap our mind around. Its a significant portion of our gross domestic product, its important to get that right is democrats keep saying. Were hearing around 1 other reports its 2 trillion. Flexible,ecause its that number might be 2 trillion . Grown,package itself has has doubled in size if you look at just the number of pages so i final dollaret a figure when its finally done. Ive heard 1. 4, 1. 6, two as mentioned, but as there are certain tweaks that are lines, somelong the of these are not insignificant, at some point, they added a unemployment those whoto make sure were laid off would have the money they need not just this week put in the weeks to come that cost a couple hundred billion dollars. And so when you talk about small amount to rather large dollar figures and that can sway the total, but what thee talking is arguably biggest thing congress has passed in the last 10 years. Calls, breakget to down the number of republicans in the senate versus the number and how many votes they need for these procedural passage. Sus final so there are 53 Senate Republicans, 47 senate democrats. And normally, thats enough to get things like judges and executive nominees through the of the thats sort normal order of business. However, a couple of caviates. Vote today to move forward on the 1 trillion plus votes tooes need 60 get over the filibuster threshold. Thats how two previous bills were passed that were many billions of dollars. The problem is not just that opposing the bill as written, but also that there are five Senate Republicans that paul,ioned earlier, rand mike lee, mitt romney, corey and rick scott who are all selfquarantined. Romney and lee decided to just yesterday after learning that senator rand paul had tested positive for meeting with aer constituent i believe it was. Bedner and rick scott should back at work pretty soon. Rick Scott Willoughby book tuesday. Its a see, senator berniehy sanders missed last nights vote . He was holding a teleconference town hall of for his president ial campaign and i believe it was on coronavirus, but he was in vermont last night. Okay. Richard, springfield, ohio. Europe first for zach cohen. Watching the news early inyesterday and the morning, and one of them was a lady and i to didnt catch her name, but she saying that this stimulus package theyre going to give at people making more than 40,000. And basically that leaves in my opinion that leaves the people money out. Need the so i was wondering if cspan could check on that and find out theres any truth to that and it. Et people know about zach cohen . There was a provision in the that ifdraft that said you didnt pay federal income thanif you made less 40,000 a year that you would receive just 600 rather than the 1,200 that is being promised to others and that provision in my understanding after objections from republicans like senator josh holly, a freshman from missouri. Argument being that this shouldnt be a regressive measure. Everybodys gaabout to pay for rent, groceries, child care so that measure i believe has been is a fluidbut this situation. Its still being negotiated so lets see what the final package like. Michelle in south carolina, michelle what do you do for a living . A dialysis nurse and its because weve been told like starting next month, many not going to get as masks, way dramatically decreased in masks and gloves think, isonally listened to trump yesterday talking, i am not a trump supporter, but anyways i to him, this is war. Toshould use his powers force companies to guide andanies to make masks gloves for healthcare workers. The numbers he said like 600,000 masks are going here and there. We need millions and millions of just 600,000. 600,000 is nothing the power during world war ii, companies were to make needed supplies. He has the power to do that. Have theseo that to things available for healthcare workers. Zach cohen . A few things on that. Thergot to mention that that congress is currently negotiating has funding for hospitals and healthcare officials and a lot of that is in opens of states giving the necessary funds to pay for all the mobile supplies, equipment,otection masks, everything weve been talking about and thats a billy crucial part of this and something thats been in previous legislative packages over the last month as folks the caller, nurses and doctors are work overtime. The caller is talking about is the defense production act which is a korean war era bill that essentially allows the president to direct private companies to produce certain for nationalry security and the welfare of the nation. What President Trump has said is he hasnt needed to actually invoke that authority, that stepping forward and providing those materials on and heser basis opposed to any sort of quote unquote nationalization of industries and now, theres a lot of calls from democrats specifically and some are saying that look, you need to have a stronger arm on this and forcing thert production of this equipment because we need it now. A debateat will be that will be hotly debated over imagine. Few days i she just tweeted out that cbs announced 150 to 500 cash bonus to pharmacists and childcareemployees, support and looks to hire 50,000 covid19 response. Ahead,paige, arizona, go whats your question or comment . My comment is that i think get back needs is to to the basics. Infected that i was virus threeona 19 weeks ago and recovered. Been hivars old, ive positive for 20 years. I had a high fever, mild a dry cough, all the symptoms described, but i still to be tested. Ble and thats what the basic problem is. There should be 120 million for people. Ble and that is where it should start. You know, i feel bad for Healthcare Providers, im a buy aman, i cant even surgical ent or the cover gloves to use to do my work. At the same time, we have to get back to basics. To test people. Its a throat swab for goodness sake, its very simple and it priority to be able to Start Testing people. Over threeprovider weeks ago and the misinformation beyond belief. Nobody can tell the truth. Les ill jump in. Zach, what do you know about there anythingis congress can do on this front . It is difficult to get a test. Right. Ler is absolutely what you have is essentially a triage effect, where you have doctors who will make the call and says look, if this particular person has mild may not betoms it montana worth using up the physical the, but the time and potential exposure of those test takers to the virus and so what are being told including toldfe i should say was your symptoms are mild enough that you should stay home and if you have Serious Problems call us back. But because of the lack of tests become an issue for those who would like that peace of mind, but thats why social important. Is so thats why those who are sick, can take care of themselves are crucial to making sure that virus doesnt spread beyond that locus point. What does that mean for you if your wife has these symptoms . Better, feeling much but it means that were taking care of her and were obviously an eye on her symptoms. Were taking her temperature and theres doctors just down the hospital just down the street. We know their numbers, but it point whereed the we feel like we need to take up the resources of an otherwise pretty strange situation. You too must selfquarantine, i take it . Ive been the reason im calling from here is because been home for the past 12, 13 days now. And showing no signs . Healthym perfectly thank you. Okay. Well, were glad you could join us in the morning and were social distancing on guests not having any guests the studio. Jason in new york, hello. Hi, how are you this morning . Good, how are you . Im doing okay. I have a couple of things. Would like to say thank you to all the healthcare workers that are out there doing this. Nurse. Is a not only is she a nurse, but she an immunosuppressed disease. Shes going into work every day, taking care of people in a nursing home. Inre have been issues here new york. She had several people quarantined where she works at moved them from other counties to her facility rehabilitation and now, theyre quarantining them there. So its kind of a nightmare for us. My question is why cant the package be separated between the American People and thebusiness so we can get American People, we can get an influx of money coming in . Lucky enough to where my wife is still working, im out on comp right now, but theres people out there that have nothing. My sister owns a salon. Shes losing her business. People that own bars and restaurants that are losing businesses. And its just the impact is great. O im not a trump supporter. I have agreed with a couple of done, but as far as it goes, i think hes being lackadaisical because he doesnt election in november and the way its looking right now is a lot of states are postponing that. Is the possibility that postponed,ns will be you know, and that situation, what do we do . So theres no talk about postponing the election just yet. That would be a rather drastic potentially require a constitutional amendment. There is talk about vote by mail and making that a much more widely Available Service so that way, people can vote from home rather than needing to crowd in public placesher in order to register their president ,references for congress, governor, state legislators, theres hundreds, officess of political on the ballot. Its also worth keeping in mind thecensus is ongoing, decline is april 1st coming up very quickly. And so theres a number of important government functions that are required in order to keep our democracy running that are running into issues because people cant gather in large door. Or go door to i believe theres a bill from rontor Amy Klobuchar and wyden a democrat from oregon and they are pushing for a national standard. Il there are some states that already do this, colorado is one of them that allows people to and doesnt mail really have in person voting places and more and more states up that. Ed as the caller mentioned there are a number of primaries that delayed and some of those will come up in later months, june, july, august time frame and thats going to have more of an impact. Down ballot on the president ial race where it appears former ace President Joe Biden has substantial lead over senator bernie sanders. Anchorage, alaska. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. My question is are there provisions in the bill regarding unemployment that make it people to get unemployment even though theres lockdown situation . Were all told to stay home and unemployment requires that you be available to work. Which state are you calling from again . Alaska. Rage, right. So there is a provision in the bolsters that boosts unemployment insurance. Thats something that people can still apply for. And i would just recommend you ink to your state agency alaska to see what the best course of action would be. Still walk around and can leave their homes other than california which has a statewide stay at home order. Leave theired to house not just to apply for unemployment insurance, but to groceries, to do sort of essential jobs, as long as people are keeping their distance, you know, maybe of taking Public Transportation or walking if its not too far, that would be way to make sure people can go about doing the essential without their lives potentially exposing themselves or others to the virus. Well move on to sean, in key florida. Sean, what do you do . Im a retired captain, but im calling on behalf of my a formerho has professor of nursing and a nurse of 45 years. I would like to point out that coming to a time when our medical professionals and staff must refuse to treat the sick dying. Without protection, we cannot allow them to and they must because they are our last line of defense. Our last hope. Tests. Beyond how can washington be so dysfunctional . Who the hell is in charge of this mess . This is something we need to take very seriously as a nation. Sean, who do you think needs to respond to get them the need . Ent that they should the president invoke the defense production act . Well, of course, he should do something of that nature, but heres the problem. Hearing every day from him and his staff, they seem to him as the great leader, even the gentleman whos texas diseases. This is nonsense. This is absolutely ridiculous. That theyve sent out everything, there are millions of tests, there are millions ofgloves, gowns and so forth, and then you hear from the hospitals and the medical professionals and no, we dont have any of that sort of stuff. When is it coming . Well, its in the mail, checks mail. This is absurd. We need people in charge who are intelligent, i mean, he stands up there and this is a time where we should all be supporting the presidency, not necessarily the president whether we like or supporting himt and wishing him well and trying to Work Together as a nation, happening. Nt whats happening is a bunch of cominge, a bunch of b. S. Out of washington and the people on the line, including myself at riskr people, are because of this nonsense were being forced into all sorts of things which make absolutely stay in the house. Nowhere. T go well, there are people that have children, these types of things, im appalled. Appalled at the lack of intelligence behind this and i think anyone in the nation, even those people that support mr. Trump and his bottom linet the for the government not getting anything done is something we andrefusing to talk about that is that 50 of the people be basicallyp to almost moderately the Second Coming and 50 of the people in the United States are opposed to him and those two actions are from getting anything done. The two parties cannot speak together. Civils if we were in a war. Its got to stop. Okay. Got it sean. Zach cohen. Yes, this is something that that folksplenty, are concerned, the lack of consistency that you hear from on federal government guidance and guidelines and will toutpresident some achievement like invoking the defense production act and ton not actually use it force any companies to produce necessary magnification or ventilators that are necessary for our Healthcare Providers so people should talk to their governors or listen to what their governors are saying, theyre holding regular press conferences and putting information up on their forites, look at the cdc guidance, trust media sources that you know and trust and thats important to get the information that you need in order to stay informed and stay healthy. Partisan divide play andwith this legislation holding that vote last night . Im not sure i understand the question. The caller was talking about divided politically in this country and that is why we cant see any action. Thatondering did partisan did partisan politics play out in how the handled last night . Right. So the vote was scheduled for at 3 00. Mcconnell said the wheels got to stop and weve got to get got to get this aid out the door so that people therespond, not just in healthcare industry, but across the country and there had been for daysnegotiations all weekend on this package. The vote was then delayed by asnose continued and then finally, mcconnell said enough is enough, were as youo hold a vote and would expect, democrats filibustered the bill and forwardd it from going and thats something that republicans and americans are angry about because republicans arguing overere inches here. This should just pass already and democrats i should say have look its important that we get this right because this is something that people will live or this just today week, but in the months and years ahead. Jane in florence, south carolina. Youre next. Yes, i have a question on the stimulus package. Does it include people on social disability . I mean, because we have all the mortgages, we have grocery, extra items you have to buy and short on funds also and i hadnt heard that and secondly, or sixwas tested five weeks ago and had the flu string a. , but i had all those symptoms, which im better now, fine now,ck at all, but i had that question, both questions. Get retested . You know what i mean . So thats one of the difficulties of this particular so it is so similar to the common flu or cold. Nasty and as long as youre not showing symptoms i think its going to be difficult to get a and generally providers have said unless you are unless you are showing symptoms and unless you have traveled abroad or come in contact with somebody who was diagnosed with covid19 you shouldnt be anded, you should stay home try to convalesce on your own. On Social Security and disability im not sure. My understanding is that the these 2,400 checks that should be going out in the mail be direct deposits instead, the goal would be that anybody regardless was theirion, regardless of finances would get the money they need in order to make it through the next few weeks. Balling, ohio. Hi, tim. Shut the 15th, they schools down, businesses. Well, good afternoon, everyone. Expressing myt by sympathy for the Defense Department contractor who passed saturday after contracting coronavirus earlier this month. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends as they mourn tragic loss. Over the weekend the department of defense continued to take to surgee action personnel, capabilities, and trumpst in support of whole nation response to the covid19