Virginia senator quarter and the founder of world central kitchen jose andres talk about the credit virus pandemic, hosted by talk about the credit virus pandemic, hosted by the Economic Club of washington. Mark is a native of connecticut. He wanted George Washington university where he got a 4. 0 average and valedictorian of his class and later went to harvard law school, came down and got back into washington. He got involved in the cellular telephone business, formed club your capital, made money doing that. And ultimately got involved in government and politics and became the chairman of the Democratic Party in virginia and also later became governor of virginia and then elected senator from virginia in 2018, reelected in 2014 and he is up for election again in 2020. Mark, thank you for joining us. Enormousyou got an round of publicity publicity from your tuna melts. I assume the microwave behind you or the kitchen behind you is where you cook that why was there so much attention to a tuna melt . First of all, david, thank you for having me. I hope you and your family and folks watching this are doing ok and that the families are safe. The tuna melt came about because i was getting quarantine crazy. This is our guest cows. I wife since we overhear each morning to while away on zoom calls. Playingher politicians heartfelt songs are played the piano or making their mothers favorite brownie recipe. My youngest daughter who had done video work on campaigns said lets do something more fun. I tried to create the single grossest sandwich ever. Itth be told i had eaten before, wiper, tuna, tons of mayonnaise, two slices of cheese white bread, and stick it in the microwave. If in the first day or so not much happened, now it lit up the microwave. Fortunately or unfortunately, for one week i got more attention on tuna melt that virtually anything i had been doing on covid19. Get thend you did not from chef ho date jose andres . Sen. Warner is a great friend it does amazing work but he crated a much nicer version of attune about back at me one week later. David as a member of the senate are you pleased with what Congress Passed to deal with a crisis . Do think it is sufficient or do we need additional legislation . Sen. Warner the original bill was 2. 2 trillion and there was another five and a billion dollars added on top of that. While most of the press has reported this is a 2. 7 trillion reality, about 400 million of the first package is 1 a33e that leverages Lending Facility for another 14, so youre talking about 6. 7 between dollars another 14. Llion. Her 4 tri so you are talking about 6. 7 trillion. The fact that it was bipartisan, both bills virtually passed unanimously, the recognition that congress knew we had to do something significant. All that capital being pushed out though, and as we saw with the unappointed never today, close to 50 unemployment and 33 million americans filing for on ,ppointment, unappointed this clearly has not been a stimulus. Unemployment. We are trying to keep the economy on life support. There are direct payments that it worked out well. There are greatly extended Unemployment Benefits which i supported in a major way and our traditional on the plummet system all the covers 30 of the workforce not in contractors are freelancers who are not covered. There was a six underdog per weekbump up 600 per bump which means in the short term some may make more and unappointed than in work and their moral hazard issues there. On the Small Business program has gotten the most attention with 600 billion that goes out to a payroll and overhead. A wellintentioned program but the challenge in design flaws there is not a requirement of revenue loss and constance whiteley there was embarrassment about there was consequently embarrassment about Public Companies taking the money. And it had an eight we length of time. So there was uncertainty in restaurants where people might say if you bring them back and put them in your ppp you may have to refurlough them if your business cannot reopen. So we are looking at extensions there and their things run health care, state support, and a host of initiatives. I think was generally the right direction. I think before we civilly reup these programs we ought to take a step back and say is there a better way . David you proposed additional legislation with another senate cosponsor that wouldve in effect give people their salary. Is that right . Sen. Warner yes, if we look at our response and unfortunately massive amounts of unemployment. While generous it disconnect you from your job and in many cases from health insurance. If we look at what our european prints have done, they decided rather than this massive series of new programs, they provided direct wage support. Government straight to paying worker salaries. The danes have done that. The germans are probably done at the best. The austrians. The british. And they have seen on the plummet only go up to 4 or 5 they have seen unemployment only up to 5 . I would say first make sure business is showing 20 revenue loss and do not have capital on their Balance Sheet. At they are hurting lets pay up to 100 of 90,000 of anyone salary. Im not sure we get that 100 of that through but it would be a direct Payment Program to workers and it would only be for workers furloughed. Folks to make, estimates, assume, while it is costly, it is about 400 billion in a quarter, that really is not much more and could be less than we have totally spent on unemployment, Medicaid Expansion come and ppp. David do you think it will pass . Sen. Warner is good question. Poll and the leader of the progressive caucus has the proposal in the house. I partnered with someone i do not normally agree with, bernie sanders, and doug jones, conservative, and the democrat accent. Josh hawley, conservative publican senator from missouri, has a slightly different version of the program. The wall street journal and new york timesand as you know the do not agree on anything, both have said this would be a better way. The question is, can we move all of these recently stood up programs to kind of a new glide path . Dealuld attach to ppp and with middle market firms who have gotten no support so far. I think it will be discussed and most folks would agree that if we have the benefit of hindsight this would have been a better approach to start with. David the president has said he would support a fourth bill only, i think im quite him correctly, if there is a payroll tax as part of that. Is there enough support in the senate for a parol tax, a payroll tax cut and why is there a why is there not . Sen. Warner the payroll tax is not sufficient. It might have been a good idea at the beginning. But the parol tax now presumes you have people on payroll. That payroll tax is a minimum amount of assistance when we are talking about people going from with revenues down 70 to 90 . If people of already been furloughed or put on unemployment, cutting a payroll tax does not provide much help. Obviously that payroll tax would help pay for the longterm issues around social security, fica and those issues. So i do not think the payroll , it was broadly dismissed even by a lot of my republican colleagues as too little, too late. David if there is a fourth bill itith your bill as part of or other features, do you think that will happen in the next month or two, or how long . Sen. Warner lets hope the economy is reopening. The president put me on his reopening task force. I want the real economy to reopen although we desperately need or testing. We desperately need more testing. Testing. Testing. Testing. Testing is critical. And im bitterly disappointed by the administrations ability to organize ppe. And if we do not organize testing, and have the same competition state against state and hospital against hospital, will have huge economic as well as medical issues. I think the next bill will not happen in the next week. It could happen. I think that happens it will happen before the end of may. In addition to my approach or replenishing the existing programs, even if we were to replenish, we realize we cannot havent eight week club on ppp. There will be areas like broadband which we under invested in. And i have major ideas there. I would like to experiment with portable benefit programs. One thing i hope we have learned as the wide swath of our society that was covered by unemployment or has no benefits now, i would love to make sure in a matter what work you do in america, you earn some benefits along the way. And who manages though those . It does not have to be government, it could be a private sector or it can be a jump ball. But we should not have 50 of our society losing a job and have nothing to fall back upon. David everybody seems to be in favor of infrastructure, no one is against more infrastructure, but why does congress not passing it her structure bill . Sen. Warner previously, there was lots of interest in infrastructure, but the president was never willing to put forward a pay for it. Now there is a moment in time directing 2. 7 trillion and four chile more in Federal Reserve lending, there may be four chile dollars more in trillion more in Federal Reserve lending, maybe we do that but we may not be able to do dollar for dollar paid for. I think both local parties have lost credit billy on gushing deficits. Credibility on gushing deficits. Deficits. David you mentioned bipartisan. Do you think the senate is more bipartisan the before covid19 . Or due thicket is the same . Or do you think it is the same . Sen. Warner the optics to the public is people snapping at each other. Macconnell puts out a position. Schumer puts out something. The backandforth makes my head hurt, and probably most of your viewers. Below that westep are actually talking about and working through these ideas, whether it is paycheck security or broadband or a portable benefits legislation. Everyone of these ideas i am working with republican colleagues. I do think there was this moment, and it was fascinating, the week that we passed the major legislation, where the weekend and people knew things were weird to the middle of the week when the seriousness of the virus hitting our country was driven home, the senate actually did work. We were 96 senators and they all voted for the bill. One week later well past the bill by unanimous consent. As dysfunctional as a place i work in is, it was a good sign. It was a moment of common sense over partisanship. David what about the debt. We are adding a lot of debt. Maybe 5 trillion dollars of Additional Debt over a 22 trillion dollar debt that we have. Are you not worried about the inflationary impact or how we will pay this off at some point . Recall, backas you the mid to thousands, i was the leading senate cassandra. Mid2000s. To leveling off entitlement spending and raising additional revenue. All of that argan meant went away when we never saw Interest Rate hikes all of that argument went away. And when the republican colleagues did eight to trillion dollar tax cut, totally unpaid for. A 2 trillion tax cut. The debt is now 27 chile dollars in total. Just the cash 27 trillion. The Interest Rates on that could be crushing. We are seeing the new normal without rates rising. And then steve who writes for the post wrote a great piece about six or eight weeks ago thatgave me some caution in this moment of crisis, if we do not spend an extraordinarily, our debt could be worse. I think over term we are leaving our kids with a Balance Sheet that is far out of whack. David once you think the commonwealth of virginia it will be able to open up . You are close to the governor and talk to him. What do you think he is thinking and when is it safe to open up . Dr. Asrner if the only a governor i think he will follow the Health Recommendations of the professionals. He has talked about entering the first stage on the eighth and that is coming up monday. It may be today. And i think he is going to do a first phase. I have urged him, he has been trying to thing about reopening virginia at once. I think we could do it on a regional basis. In northern virginia, would be the most in need. Reopening in concert with washington, d. C. And maryland. Our dmv region may have a different opening routine than southwest virginia. , and ing we are watching hope it does not board bowed poorly for the folks in georgia, where the georgia governor was so aggressive about reopening, even to the opposition of trump, they are the canary in the coal mine of reopening and see what happens in that state. Say this as a former governor, i would like to get the economy reopened. But if you get people back out and see a spike, and you lose folks confidence, that second reopening is going to be exponentially harder. David mark, youre the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence committee. Are you worried theres going to be foreign interference in the 2020 sen. Warner i can answer that in two ways. I am extraordinarily concerned that this president has completely disrespected the Intelligence Committee community from day one, increasingly politicizing the Intelligence Community leadership. The person he has now is an no experience, a partisan hack. I am fearful that our intelligence professionals, their job is to speak truth to power, and literally every person this person this president appointed inside the office of the director of National Intelligence, he has fired because they have done their job. Because they told him things he did not want to hear. Im afraid that yes, the russians will try to interfere, and that if our Intelligence Community doesnt feel they can cannotpendent, they sound and early enough morning because of fear of losing their jobs. Distractedhen we are with this national emergency, it could allow russia, china or others to play a lot of mischief in our election systems. David speaking of china, is there anything you can tell us about what the Intelligence Committee may know about whether it was a wet market or a lab that released, intentionally or not, the covid19 virus . Again, this is an area ive spent a lot of time on in the last 2. 5 years. I have extraordinary concerns about the communist party in china and xi jinping and his aspirations. But this is with the communist party, not with china as a nation or the Chinese People and certainly not with chinese americans. I feel that the president with a broad brush attacks and does not make that distinction. It was very believable to me when there were first stories that said the Chinese Government were opaque about letting experts in, that the virus could have been sourced somewhere other than the socalled wet markets. But all of the intelligence we had no basis for that. The intelligence has been similar to what has been in the Public Domain that this originated, was not manmade,. Manmade, a. Have originated in the market. Think the president needs to show the socalled gang of i gang of eight, we have basically said, if you have information, you got to show it to us. You cannot go around making these statements that he has intel and not at least share it with the oversight committee. David the Democratic National convention is supposed to be held this summer. You think it will be career completely virtual . Sen. Warner i dont have the foggiest notion. At the end oft this month, we will be making enough progress that we can see reopening. I would urge people not to make rash decisions about cancellations too early. I have a daughter i hope will go to Business School in the fall. As somebody pointed out, i am not sure a Political Convention gives the same boost. Give thesure they candidates necessarily the boost they used to give. David how are senators staying healthy . Average are probably older than the average american, and probably subject to getting the virus. Are they shaking hands, are they Wearing Masks . What are they doing . Sen. Warner at 65, i work in the only place in america where i am still one of the young guys. To see little bit weird the senate react. I think for the most part, with the exception of summary like rand paul, who is kind of off on wearing a mask, the same guy who did not tell his colleagues he had the virus or had been tested for the virus virtually everybody else is good about Wearing Masks. No handshaking. The nominee for director of National Intelligence with elbow bumps the other day. For the most part, one of the things that is remarkable about the senators even though a number of them are in their 80s, just the nature of this job means that when you are on the hill, you are walking a couple of miles a day, even with subway cars, as you move from meeting to meeting. Impressed thaty senators are in good shape. David what have you been doing with your family . You have three daughters. Are you isolating together or are they tired of being with their parents . Sen. Warner they are definitely tired of being with their parents. Here, myo of them third is with her boyfriend. They were in new york and went to our farm, so they got out and have had a nice seven weeks. I am very fortunate, i have resources in my family is safe. Why is one of the reasons peoplem sure you know who have had the virus avenue i had, and it is ugly circumstances. David final question, do you expect be the chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee after the next election . Sen. Warner i hope i am the chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee. If i am chairman, what i continue to do is same as vicechairman. Im really proud of that committee. Its one of the last fully bipartisan, functioning committees. Its not getting the attention of everyone right now, but we came out with the fourth volume of our russia investigation report, still 100 bipartisan. The questions around china in a bipartisan way. I believe our intelligence professionals need the support of congress. They dont go in as democrats or republicans and another should we viewed david should we. David im gonna let you go back to your tuna melt. Thank you for your time in service. Sen. Warner i know jose is going to be on and i want to give a shout out. Hes doing remarkable work. Doing washington they are no kid hungry and raising for that. There are so many people going through some of the toughest times. There is so much food anxiety right now, so if we can support no kid hungry and support joses efforts, those are good things to do. Thank you so much. David thank you. Ok, now we will talk to jose andres. He is touring around virginia. I think he was in his car earlier. Jose, can you hear me . Jose hello. David where are you physically right now . Jose i am in Virginia Beach. Andke up early, made bread, i began driving to Virginia Beach from maryland. Beautiful i have this church. They are doing an amazing work with puerto ricans, latinos, south americans. This is one of the main centers we have in virginia for this population. David for people who may not know you as well as i do, how did you decide to get out of the world of being a chef, which is an honorable thing to do, and get into the world of feeding people who are hungry . What made it motivated you to do that . Jose i always said i feed a few we cannot have a restaurant without making sure nobody else is hungry. That we cand to me gras and twos streets down, people dont know what they are putting on the table. A little building across from my restaurant was able to create the most impressive system to provide relief to soldiers during the civil war. If they could do that over a century ago, a cook like me should be able to achieve the same success feeding the hungry in emergencies. That is why. I try to help feed the many. David you have a number of restaurants around the u. S. And elsewhere. Are they all closed now . Ones i am one of the first that said i was closing my restaurants. Especially in d. C. I am the first one that said i am closing the restaurant but i am Opening Community kitchens. They are technically closed, but the Community Kitchen means we are doing takeout, we are doing delivery, we are using the restaurants to feed the homeless. With others tong make sure my restaurants are in the service of providing food relief. David people in the u. S. Are familiar with food banks, and where people go to get cans of food and so forth, but you are cooking meals for people, is that right . Jose we are doing two or three things. Useful in an emergency, when a kitchen comes, we cook in a kitchen we can rent. Right now we have 800,000 restaurants and millions of people in the food business out of jobs. So if we need to cover the humanitarian problem, why dont we put those restaurants to take care of the needs of the hungry . That is what we have been doing and it makes a lot of sense. David one of your programs has been to get chefs and cooks who are not working to be part of world central kitchen, is that right . Jose we have right now more than 1000 restaurants across betweenthat do anywhere 100 and 1000 meals each. We are using those restaurants in partnership with local community leaders, churches, needs onecover the city at a time and one restaurant at a time. David i see. Where are you getting the money to finance this . People want to give you money, where they give it to you . Are you seeking mostly money, is it government money or private sector money . Jose no government money. It becomes complicated. It is slow and we are a quick organization. So yeah, we have many individuals who give us from one like mayoromeone bloomberg who gave us billions. Humanitarianional emergency. I have been pushing congress is aly to say guys, this problem that should not be a problem, and you have the tools theake sure you support ideas that world central kitchen is in forward that no american should be hungry during the pandemic. David where is the greatest problem in the United States right now, or is no one place where some the other . Jose we need to remember that the problem was already before the pandemic. Americans million that are food insecure. If you are food insecure in a moment like this, it is the worst scenario. Right now we have millions of people joining the unemployment ranks, and on top of that, we have many undocumented that as they lose their jobs because they are undocumented, they cannot receive assistance. Multiplied,em has and that is why the problem is all around. We are in more than 150 cities right now from oakland to Virginia Beach to harlem and the arkansas, york, l. A. , everywhere they have problems. You are the ceo of world central kitchen, the chief chef. What is your main role . Jose not anymore. Im the founder and am one more soldier with boots on the ground. The ceo is great. He is a longtime friend of mine, a guy who came with me to puerto rico during maria. We created a system there to do more than 4 million meals in puerto rico. I am the founder. I am on the board but im trying to move myself away from the board. That is what i do. Like here, i try to go places and see the problem on my own so that when i speak to senators in congress or people like you, i can speak with knowledge of the situation. If not, Everything Else is theory. I can tell you what is going on in america. David when do you expect you can reopen your restaurants and will you open them differently . Will everyone have to have a mask . Am on the Advisory Board for mayor bowser. I think i have a unique experience on this because i have experience feeding people under difficult situations. The princess cruise ship, we began a feeding system to make sure our teams and everyone would be healthy. I want to protect my team, thats why closed early. I think even if they gave me permission to reopen, by the city or president , i will at the end make my own call when i feel it is safe. Well, whatsafe, happened with mayor bloomberg in new york with contact tracing. Why we dont have, the most powerful country in the history technology,ith the why we dont have a simple know who haswe been in contact and we are able to quarantine ourselves to make sure we minimize the pandemic spread . Why we dont use technology to make sure you can all feel safe as we keep the economy going . Because we have a true lack of leadership. I dont mean only government. Elective leadership from the u. N. All the way to the government. Tracing, i have could reopen. But we dont have anything like that, so i will be super careful and i will open when i feel like my city and anywhere else, we will not be part of the problem by spreading the virus. I dont know when to open. David how do restaurants like yours and Restaurant Owners survive . You are not getting any revenue and i assume you have some fixed costs and it is a terrible financial burden. They are trying to get congress to pass legislation to reimburse restaurants . Been in manyf have wars already and there is one , thet thing going independent restaurant is businessest across america. We are close to 500,000 independent restaurants that we feel like ppp, it was a nice idea at the beginning and i am happy it was kind of by manysan, that they put so structures that is not helping the restaurants. At the end of the day, if we dont have business, how are businesses going to have employees . Thats what we have unemployment. The businesses should have money to make sure youre able to have the minimum team to operate an open. Think the government should be taking care of every single employee, with a really good paycheck to make sure they dont have a problem of losing their homes are being thrown out of their home because they dont pay rent or have money to buy food, etc. And then for the businesses to reopen when it is the right time. Many i hope that it will not be so restrictive in the regulations and rules on the loans. David if somebody wants to help world central kitchen, what can they do . Toe number one, im going say what you want your money in the bank for . Bring america back to work. Beyond 5 million and about to reach 6 million. We are doing almost a quarter million meals per day. Before you send us one dollar, we are spending it and helping everybody in the process. Hiring, reopening, paying farmers everybody benefits. Ck. Org. And donate. Every dollar counts. David how much are you trying to raise . Around, are spending between half 1 million and 1 dolion per day as an average the numbers. Thats why we have this bill that is bipartisan, where it was californiaators from and massachusetts, and supported by a republican. Bipartisan in the house. Got Kamala Harriss support in the senate, and we got a republican from south carolina. Democrats and republicans breaking bread on a bill that will put restaurants at work through the governors and mayors, and they can take care of local needs. That is a brilliant, simple idea that i hope will pass and i hope congress, fema, and the governors and mayors will use to tackle the problems they may have in their communities. David jose, how are you staying healthy . You are traveling around and you have to meet lots of people. How are you staying healthy . Jose i wear my masks every day. I wear my gloves. I wash myself before i come into my house twice a day with a hose, with liquid, with sanitizer. All of our teams remember world central kitchen were the first people with the code of how to behave in restaurants. For me, it is important that my teams are helping in this pandemic. We have been blessed. Let me tell you one thing that is wrong. Seeard senator warner we everybody doing this, Vice President pence. Wey are telling us that should cough in our elbow like this, but then you see everybody bumping elbows. Are we nuts . We should not be touching each other. This atd at the most do the heart. People are putting their viruses in their elbow and then they are hitting elbows. It doesnt make any sense. Little things like this, if we virus, that it has more i think we dont need to touch each other. Only touch your family members in your household. Anybody else who loves each other and staying away from each other. David what about your family, your children . Are they staying at your home in bethesda and selfisolating . Jose everybody is there. We are blessed, we have a nice sized house. My heart is with the people who have 10 people in his studio apartment or public housing. I am blessed. My daughter sometimes help me to deliver food to hospitals, but they make sure they have minimum contact. Up foodters go to pick downtown at the national stadium, or we have a big cooperation with washington, d. C. From there, my daughters are delivering everyday to the Childrens Hospital inside and i age, where it is poor children going through treatment and it is kind of a hotel. My daughters are volunteering in doing that. David with your daughters, there is a video on the internet that basically has you cooking some eggs and putting ice cream on top of it. Is that a healthy thing to eat . Jose there is nothing healthier than eggs. Look at me, im the perfect example of healthiness. Overweight healthiness. So yeah. The best one was two days ago when i made scrambled eggs using a blowtorch. Making ourandemic is creativity explode. I think out of this pandemic, the good thing is we will have Brilliant Minds coming up with brilliant ideas, you wait and see. David ok, jose i want to thank you for being with us. Then keeper what you are doing for the country and the world, and stay healthy. We need you to stay healthy. Jose i will be healthy. I am very aware of the familyon, i had some members that died in spain. My mother and father were nurses and i have many family family members that died in spain. In hospitals in the u. S. And spain. It is important we keep our nurses and doctors healthy so we can get past this virus hopefully sooner rather than later. David thank you very much. Jose thank you. David ok, now we are going to of n Street Village. Schroeder i can hear you. David for people who dont know what n Street Village is, can you explain . I think youve been the ceo since 2010 . Schroeder correct. David and you are a graduate of georgetown and wellesley . Schroeder yes. David and you are a native of new york . Schroeder i sure am. Streettell us what n village is and how you have changed it to deal with covid19 challenges. Schroeder first of all, thank you for the opportunity to be on with you this morning to talk about this and the important things going on, and thank you to be in such nice company with senator warner and chef andres. I feel slight pressure to come up with unique recipe and put it on social media. I have to deal with that afterwards. I also appreciate the opportunity because we have a lot of frontline workers, of village. T n street this is an opportunity for me to say thank you to the people who go to work at our shelter and Supportive Housing programs, under unprecedented circumstances. N Street Village is a Nonprofit Organization that is almost 50 years old. We provide housing and services for low income women and housing for families. We have five locations in washington, d. C. We provide all kinds of housing from shelter all the way through permanent and Supportive Housing, which is when folks have special needs or disabilities in their housing. We also provide Wraparound Services for everyone, including health and vocational services. And we do advocacy. Lifting up the voices of the people we serve. They are the people we need to be listening to, and we advocate around the issues of importance to those we serve. We serve about 2000 women every year, and still to this day, at least one new woman comes to our doors for the very first time. David covid19 has changed things for you in which way . Youve had to do things much more carefully than before, presumably. Schroeder it has changed everything. We recognized early on that we would have to shift our operations very quickly so that we could manage the health of the people we serve and our staff to the best of our ability. We went to a protocol where all of the women we were previously serving are still being served, but some of the other services are not available at this time. They will come back online when we are able to. We are protecting peoples help and we are working with city partners, p provider partners, everyone is collaborating rapidly to adapt to the Health Guidance and to keep folks safe. Weve had a lot of people who have gone to the isolation and quarantine that has been provided. Our city has done a good job of finding isolation and quarantine locations to try to manage contagion in a dense environment. David in washington, d. C. , how many Homeless People are there estimated . Schroeder we count once a year, it is called a point in time count, is a snapshot piece of data. It is not annualized. It the, i always do longest night in january, the coldest night, there were about 6500 people homeless and washington, d. C. That is one night. Most of the people who are homeless stay in the shelter. Its about 10 or so who stay on the street. David when they are on the street, why are they on the street rather than in a shelter . What is the advantage . Schroeder sometimes it is by choice. ,eople may have circumstances pets or partners, and they are not able to find a place that can accommodate them. There may be Mental Health issues, or they may feel afraid of going into a shelter. They may have been traumatized. That is common. We work hard and we also have laws in d. C. For right to shelter that are more aggressive than elsewhere. We work hard to make sure that everyone who needs shelter has it. David are there more women than men are homeless . Schroeder more men. About a quarter, give or take. This is true here and across the country of women, of the single adult homeless population. About whated me coronavirus was going to do to us, and i want to answer that question more fully and say that in addition to managing the health directly of the people we serve and our staff and supporting our staff through this crisis, what i really believe the most significant thing coronavirus is going to do for n Street Village and the people we serve and the efficacy issues we and public partners, many folks in this group and elsewhere care about, is this virus will bring a three alarm sound to the three alarm blaze of economic inequality that many of us have been watching a long time and have been very worried about. , think when the tide rolls out just as we heard jose talk about, just as we heard senator warner talking about, that the inequality was preexisting and it will be worse. We are concerned about the downstream effects. Not only the people we are serving now, but what about the leading indicators we see of the tripling of Food Insecurity issues or the leading indicator of rent payments going down . We know that we will face a tide of new need. David the homeless women that come into your shelters, for example, are they there for a month, longer, shorter . And do people gravitate away morehomelessness into traditional living arrangements or not . Schroeder i have never met anyone who is homeless who did not want to not be homeless. Sometimes people dont want to live with other people in a group setting, but they dont want to be homeless. I would say everyone is aiming for that. The biggest problem is we live wagesity where rent and still diverge so greatly and continue to. Homelessness for the most part is an economic problem. And we live in one of the hotspots, one of the cities where a lot of people, if you work fulltime, you cannot afford to live there. Us find tonk many of be a moral hazard issue for some time. I would love to hear senator warner talk about when we come back from this crisis, can we not only come back from this crisis ok, not just rebuild, but redesign . Are there better ways to do things . David if someone he wants to support n Street Village, what do they do . Schroeder there are two ways to get active. The first way to get active is what you are already doing, and what i want to thank you for and everyone here who is interested to be aware, ready and engaged, and be thinking about these things. Because i really believe we need to build overwhelming public support for the notion that economic inequality and Structural Racism is unacceptable to us and we see alland we are going to have aspect of our society involved in that. Activism and society in the circles where you are, and supporting things like what senator warner was talking about, that is a perfect example. To nea active, come Street Village. Come virtually right now and in person later. Get active as a donor, we would love to have you viewed david you do accept to have you. David you do accept financial contributions . Schroeder yes indeed. We are reliant on financial contributions. We would not be able to serve the 2000 women every year without it. Operations program are dependent on this. Getd how much money do you a year in donations . Schroeder about 4. 5 million. David youre going to have a fundraising event with jose andres. Schroeder yes, we were. There,f you are still pronto, i hope. We have mutual friends and he generously agreed to support n Street Village and we are looking forward to a time when we can do that. We are so grateful. Here is your son, jose, how we greet each other now. Very grateful. David the main messaging we want to give to people about n Street Village, the people who are not familiar with it, is basically what . Schroeder homelessness is a crisis in our city, that it is solvable, that we need everyone to be involved in the solutions, and we would love for you to come and get involved in the conversation at n Street Village. David ok. Thank you for that message and for appearing with us. Thank you. Tuesday, dr. Anthony fauci and dr. Robert redfield testify at a Senate Hearing about returning to work and school amid the coronavirus pandemic. Watch live coverage tuesday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan three. Ondemand on cspan. Org, or listen on the go on the free cspan radio app