If you live in eastern or central time zones, 202 7488000 is the number to call. Dish in thein any mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001. The recent column appeared in yesterdays wall street journal. The era of Big Government is back is the title. To show you some of what they wrote. Conversations with a broad crosssection of political figures suggest there is little reason to expect a return of the status quo on federal spending, or the prevailing attitude toward the proper role of government. The era of Ronald Reagan is over a democratmanuel, who served as the mayor of chicago and president obamas first chief of staff. An echo came from the other. Ide, from Stephen Bannon it is not relevant. That is some of the thoughts from yesterday from gerald cy vance john mccormick. This when itte comes to mr. Trump. Saying, long before when this crisis struck, trump had been moving the party away from its embrace of traditional conservative precepts. The Trump Administration declared that
Among, at least seven different other items that World Health Officials will look at, including the president of the United States before deciding at the end of this month whether to extend sheltering provisions or to start unwinding them n the middle that a bit of a constitutional back and forth whether the president alone can decide this matter. We have different reads of this. Well get into a little bit on this, some say that the president is wrong, states ultimately decide on this. The president granted them power when and how far to shelter, then they have the power to decide when and how to deshelter. Well get into that. It is a fascinating legal argument here, one might be a moot point if any of this progress weve seen reverses or slows, likely pushing back a timeline on getting everything back to normal. A lot of fast moving developments. Connell mcshane on the latest developments. Hey there, connell. Reporter neil, if there is agreement between the Health Experts around the wo
Same time the World Health Organization is warning the u. S. Could be the next global epicenter of the. Hello there this is Art International from moscow welcome to the program just turned 2 pm here this wednesday with a slightly new show julian places you can see for a bit my name is kevin with me im a colleagues will be here every day at this time to update you on the latest in a full 30 minute world news roundup many concerned with corona virus of course and let me update you on that the overall number of coronavirus cases confirmed around the world today as a past 428000 with the death toll over 19000 but that said there is plenty of hope to more than 109000 people as of this hour recovered since the outbreak started late last year. You know. So as mentions of libya putin is soon expected to address the nation of the current corona Virus Outbreak here in russia its much anticipated the total number of cases has now reached 658 earlier the russian president in a slightly surreal yel
Welcome to the program our top story the u. S. Federal reserve us cut Interest Rates back to near 0 in an effort to boost the american and Global Economy during the course of this and demick President Donald Trump congratulated the central bank during an announcement at the white house it lowered the fed rate. From what it was which was 121425 and its been lowered down to 020. 24 or point 24 so its 02. 2 for. A big difference its a. Quite a bit of a point. Lets go live to mike hanna now hes in washington and this is really the most drastic step taken by the u. S. Federal reserve since the financial crisis of 2008 i guess it gives you a sense of the shock the coronavirus pandemic is about to cause or is already causing in d. D. s senate also follows weeks if not months of urging by President Trump for the fed to drop its rates virtually on a daily basis the president has been insisting that the fed is airing by not dropping its rates so certainly this now is a major step in terms of cre
Together. Mr. President , i yield the floor. The response to the coronavirus has made it clear that there are lots of things that other responsibility of individuals, things like staying home if you are sick, frankly staying home if you are more likely than others to be sick, practicing the kinds of hygiene are mothers taught us we should follow all along. Personally i may have set a new personal record for just washing my hands in the last two weeks. Ive never been adverse to wash my hands but but i dont know t ive ever watched them half a dozen times a day or more before, but those kinds of things are left up to us. And then there are things that are left up to the local level, things to determine in a local Community Whether things should be open or not, what kind of activities should be the activities where you draw the line in terms of crowds. Much likely to be better decided at a local level by even the state or even more likely by a mayor or account executive than by somebody he