As coronavirus cases continue to spike nationwide, we must ensure the contractors our government relies on are taking every step they can to minimize the spread of covid19 among workers and attain these. For fiscal year 2020, congress appropriated 3. 1 billion approximately in more than 45,000 adult and family i. C. E. Beds. Ion over 80 of these beds are operated daily by private contractors, some of whom are at this hearing today. That is a large amount of taxpayer money. It demands oversight and accountability. Detention facilities must be held to a High Standard at all times. Within this moment, it is of vital importance. Yet over the past few months, it is feared that ice am a and its contractors have not taken the outbreak seriously and have not i. C. E. And its contractors have not taken the outbreak seriously. At least 405i. C. E. Employees assigned to detention facilities have just a positive. Least twost at detainees, a potential third today in florida, and five contractors, d
Welcome to Washington Post live. This is a special live freak recording of my post opinion podcast. We have a lot to talk about with my guest today. She has been her states secretary of health. She has represented her state in congress. On today, she is said to be joe bidens Vice President ial short list. Governor grisham, welcome. Governor grisham i am delighted to be on your show. Nice to meet you and spend a little time with you. Jonathan likewise. Thank you for being here. I mentioned that you were the health secretary. You were a member of congress. They gave you incredible insight how to deal with the coronavirus early on. You declared a state wide Health Emergency on when there were march 11 only four cases in your state. What did you see that pushed you to move so quickly . Governor grisham two things, you know this virus is moving so it comes with travelers. We have commuters. We are a moving hub. We are still dealing with folks trapped on a cruise in california and i dealt wi
Afternoon. I want to thank you for hosting us. Thank Governor Desantis good afternoon. I want to thank you for hosting us. Thank you to the mayor for all of the hard work he has done over many months working closely with us here in the state government. We came to jackson in i think wa. At that point, i dont even know if miamidade had a case, a positive test. It was obviously much different than what we are finding here. You are doing nothing you us an explanation. You are deceiving the public. Over 4000 people have died and you have no plan. You are doing nothing. Shame on you. Shame on both of you. Desantis at that time, when we were here, we had a whole bunch of concerns about what would end up happening in weeks in the next few and months. Shame on you. Desantis we had concerns about testing, we were able to get test, we were not able to get test for all the people who needed them at the time. In fact, there were probably hundreds of tests being conducted statewide. Nationally, tho
President trumps approach to schools. He also spoke about the federal governments overall response to , rising cases across the country, and concerns over travelers potentially causing another outbreak in new york. This is an hour. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. A pleasure to be here gov. Cuomo good morning, everyone. The doctor who has been working on among other things the state reopening School Reopening plan. Right, melissa, secretary to the governor. To her right rick cotton was the head of the Board Authority whos been doing an extraordinary job overall, building laguardia airport, first newport and the United States in 25 years, redoing john f. Kennedy airport and then if that wasnt enough he had to do was something called covid which obviously impacted the airports and were were so lucky to havm and want to thank you very much for everything he has been doing. This morning were going to be joined by mayor bottoms, mayor of atlanta. A
And forcing candidates to address what we need that maybe participation will be more robust, united around not just talking points like rebuilding the middle class. We are united around the rules we shifted and how to change those rules and we have a way to determine who is with us and against us. We find elected officials who will. That is how we look at politics and electoral organizing. This excites me about your work and it describes that work. It is something we all want, fundamental to our species but work that can be joyful and imaginative and worth thinking about new worlds and the reason for that is they feel it is the grim work of reinforcing status quo. Moment of awakening are moments you can build that gap with imagination. Getting people to say what are things that are important to them to use their vote. For stalling disaster is part of it. You need to get back into running for office, not just voting but being involved. I am energized by folks that we have elected, engag