And, social distancing guidelines set to expire at midnight tonight, the president will not extend those guidelines because states have put in their policies. Just ahead, governor jay inslee, fromater mike leavitt utah. Phone lines are open. Join in the conversation. 2027488000 in the east. 2027488001, mountain or pacific time zone. State,ington 2027488002. Good thursday evening. The numbers from john hopkins university. Cases inon confirmed 100 87 countries and regions around the world. 232,000. Toll 62,000 in this country. Joining us from washington is governor jay inslee. Gov. Inslee thank you for naming a show after Washington State. With let me begin unemployment workers. One in five workers now out of work, one point 5 billion in unemployment benefits. How are you dealing with the volume . We have received claims seven to eight times higher on a daily basis. Are doing everything to get checks to people with expanded compensation. I was one of the first governors to expand that. N
30 million americans now out of work as a result of this pandemic. And the federal governments social distancing guidelines set to expire in just a few hours, at midnight tonight, president saying he will not extend those guidelines because states have put in their own policies. Governor jay inslee of Washington State, and later the health and Human Services secretary will be joining us. Phone lines are open. Join the conversation. If you are in the manteno wec times out, were have a line set aside for you. This evening, we began with the numbers from john hopkins university, now 3. 2 million cases in 137 countries and regions around the world. The death toll at 232,000 here in this country. We are reaching the city 2000 mark and the number of deaths in all 50 states. Country. Joining us from washington is governor jay inslee. Gov. Inslee thank you for naming a show after Washington State. With let me begin unemployment workers. One in five workers now out of work, one point 5 billion
Conversation through our washington journal program. Cspan, created by private industry. As a Public Service and brought to you by your television provider. The u. S. Senate gaveled in this morning. Mitch mcconnell attempted to approved by unanimous consent and increase to the Paycheck Protection Program. The ranking democrat on the Small Business committee objected and said the majority leader had not negotiated with democrats on this package. Senator Chris Van Hollen also the floor and tried to call up another Small Business bill. This is about half an hour. Our nation continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic. Americans have00 tested positive. Nearly 15,000 have lost their lives. Emts areoctors, and fighting this disease literally day and night. An important important Public Health measures are creating economic catastrophe. This morning, we learned that 6. 6 million more americans filed for unemployment in just the last week. That means, mr. President , more than 16 million amer
We are keeping our distance. Sen. Schumer hi, everybody. Spread out. First, i am so proud to be joined by my friend, great speaker, great partner. We probably talked 20 times the last few days. And we are still not tired of each other, i hope. The bill we passed was greatly improved. Leader mcconnell simply tried to steamroll us. We tried to tell him it is much better to talk with us than steamroll us. Because we had input into the bill, it is a much better bill. Leader mcconnells bill was simply a bill for ppe. We werent against increasing it, but there was so much more to do. First, there were so many people in my state and throughout the country who were small, did not know a big shot banker, and that was because the ppp program , the way it was structured, help to those who had a friendly banker and those who were larger, more successful companies. We wanted to deal with the butcher and the baker and candlestick maker, the average Small Business person. We needed to get them help.
Democrats would block it. Heres a look at her comments now. We will show you as much as we can before todays White House Briefing. Pelosi thank you all if you are out here. Good day wherever you are in this holy week, passover. Approaching Easter Sunday and ramadan. The appropriate time for us to more deeply pray for those who have lost their lives and the families that are suffering and those who are sick with the virus. Its a very, very sad time as we awaken this morning to see that the totals are approaching 450,000 people infected. Approaching nearly 15,000 people who have lost their lives. That is the sad, sad part of it all. More than 17 million initial unemployment claims. Hundreds of thousands of jobs lost in the month of march. Now millions more expected in the coming months. The assault on the lives and the livelihood of the American People is one of epic proportion and one that demands congress continue to take bold, urgent, effective action to bring rapid relief to the heal