Doctors. And it will be a large number it will be will be telling them over the next very short period where theyre going and theyre going into war theyre going into a battle for the United Nations has raised concerns about latin america being hard hit its economic arm for the region says the effects of the pandemic will likely push millions more into poverty brazil has recorded the most cases of us out of a real run p. S. He reports on the situation on the continent from bogota. Very very worrying numbers coming from braised really get this pipes these concerns the despite the spike in new infections there the president of brazil he had both been out of keeps meaning my seeing the impact that hes will have in brazil he continues to say that hes more worried about the Economic Impact there and so he is attacking mayors and governors who have imposed strict measures in a number of regions across the bridge dealing insisting these measures should and men will be able to go out to just fo
With james hodge who is director of the center for Public Health law and policy at Arizona State university. Washington journal is next. Is next. Is next host good morning. This is washington journal for tuesday, march 17, 2020. There is very little celebrating planned due to the shutdown of bars and restaurants nationwide because of the coronavirus and further restrictions and limited by the federal government, the white house, State Governments and localities. We would love to hear what you are seeing in response to the outbreak. The7488000 is the line in eastern and central time zones. For mountain and pacific residence, 2027488001. In the line we have set aside for medical professionals. Your line, 2027488002. We would love to hear your experience. You can text us a message. That is 2027488003. We would love to hear where you are texting from, your name as well. Andwitter we are cspanwj post your comments on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. There was a briefing yesterday with the Cor
It is important we distinguish between federal and state roles but the state is is at. He action they are the possessors of the broadest Public Health powers that you can actually have in the United States. Some states delegate those two locals. They have got the Sovereign Authority to respond in real powers thaterent you are seeing put into effect as we speak. They use those the extensively in an emergency like this. We have seen states act across the country, thinking of new york state, maryland, california, obviously. Of note soou seen far . It is important to observe one thing we have never seen before in u. S. History to my knowledge. Every single state, all u. S. Territories, simultaneous declared state of emergency. We have never seen that. This is that serious. We have unleashed Public Health powers traditional things we might do we are now using those on expedited basis. Everything in relation to testing, screening, social distancing, measures pursuant to quarantine, isolation
[inaudible conversations] good morning this hearing will come to order. Its the day to do the environment subcommittee with fiscal year 2021 budget request for the Environmental Protection agency. And acting chief Financial Officer welcome to both of you. The president s request 2021 to 66 billion to the epa and 27 percent cut hello fy 2020. This seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve in a broad bipartisan basis fy 2024 example to request to eliminate 30 mine Million Dollars of new funding we provided to the epa and requests with Clean Energy Funding grants by 47 percent and 9 milliondollar cuts fy 2020 also 870 million from the 3 billion we invested to rebuild our crumbling Water Infrastructure. I held a listening section in st. Paul they would lose 56 percent of federal funding and approximately 75 percent of the cats were to go through the minnesota pollution control that air pollution monitoring for the communities back home and clean water action said it would be a
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Today is the day we will examine the president s fiscal year for the epa joining with morning is administrator wheeler and acting chief Financial Officer. Welcome to both of you. Fiscal year 2021 the president s 66 billion to the epa but this request the presidency of what you were able to achieve on the fy 2020. And then to eliminate the new funding we provided to address pfas and the Clean Energy Funding grants c by 47 percent at 409 million fy 2020 also has money from the 3 billion we invested with our nations crumbling Water Infrastructure. Recently held a listening session and they would lose and what at what happened of these cuts were to go through the pollution control also proposed cuts to the clean water grant act air pollution and monitoring to have our communities back home included it would be an absolute catastrophe for clean water. And i directly heard about concerns with the budget with the pfas pollution it could be truly devasta