Testified on capitol hill recently regarding budgets for 2017 and 2018. Modernization and cybersecurity efforts from the Top Priorities for all these agencies. This House Administration Committee Hearing is about an hour and a half. I now call to order the committee on House Administration for the purpose of starting todays hearing on the operations and priorities of the house officers and legislative branch entities. Aquorum is present so we may proceed. I would like to start off by thanking my colleagues and our witnesses for your attendance today. I know how busy everyone is and we appreciate your flexibility and willingness to appear this afternoon. I would also like to thank our witnesses for hard work and assistance during new member and a smooth transition for staff into the 115th congress and especially for the incredible amount of work that went into securing and hosting the president ial inauguration. We know many months of preparation went into insuring our government carrie
Good evening everyone. Im kate bolduan in for erin burnett tonight. An urgent plea to the nations governors. People need to wear a mask. That is the clear and direct message from the Vice President , dr. Anthony fauci, and dr. Debra birx today in a call to governors. What then will we hear from the president who announced today he is resuming his version of the White House Task force briefing . As we speak, 31 states are heading in the wrong direction. The death rate also now increasing in 20 states. But is that why the briefings are returning . Youre left to wonder, because this is what the president said. I was doing them and we had a lot of people watching, record numbers watching. In the history of cable television, television theres never been anything like it. I think well start that probably starting tomorrow. Ill do it at 5 00 like we were doing. We had a good slot. And a lot of people were watching. Bring back the briefings. He mentioned the hot spots of florida and texas, but
Our place, kan. , must show the path, the difficult path for america to go in these troubled times. The and we and shannon thank you. That was governors Sam Brownback with the state of the state address. We now go to senator Anthony Headley for the democratic response to enact we have been talking that the string that we have time. We have talked about how i have a dream. We will somehow realizes principles and the declaration of independence. I think he was just inspired by that moment. Sunday on after words, clairborne carson recalls his march on washington. It is part of three days of the tv this weekend on monday featuring authors and books from the inauguration. President obama, and Martin Luther king jr. Every weekend latest nonfiction authors and books are featured on booktv. You can see past programs and schedules our website and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. Congress talked about avoiding the death sequester. Congressman levin is the Ranking Member on
But one dire forecast leaked today from a federal agency is drawing particular scrutiny at the highest levels. The white house today pushing back hard on a interagency report from fema that shows in the next month the number of coronavirus deaths could rise to 3,000 per day in the number of infections could rise to 200,000 per day from the current 25,000. In a statement, the white house saying this is not a white house document, nor has it been presented to the Coronavirus Task force or god through interagency vetting. This data is not reflective of any of the modeling done by the task force or the data that the task force has analyzed. Fox news is told that dr. Deborah birx has seen the report in disagrees with the projections. Two important model showed the forecast getting worse. The centers for Disease Control now predicting a total of 100,000 deaths in the next few weeks. The institute for Health Metrics and evaluation now forecasting nearly 135,000 deaths, almost double the previ
Distancing guidelines. You can find a similar situation at the National Mall in the nations capital. Crowds enjoying the weather. Some Wearing Masks, many not wearing them. New yorkers also took advantage of the beautiful spring weather to go to central park. The other study that shows a spike in deaths in case loads was conducted for the government that was first reported by the New York Times. Now, the white house and cdc have disavowed the numbers, however, the times and Washington Post report that slides created from the report carried the cdc logo on them. Also that the numbers come from modelling conducted by Johns Hopkins university. Now, in both reports cases are projected to spike with the death count rising sharply. Last night President Trump tried to say that, quote, everything is working out, unquote. Even as he upped his own estimate. Two weeks ago today he projected deaths between 50,000 to 60,000. Last night he said it would be 75,000 to 100,000. However, a member of the