With a big bang and open up our country or certainly most of our country and i think were going to do that soon. You look at whats happening, i would say were ahead of schedule. Now, you hate to say it too loudly because all of a sudden things dont happen, but i think we will be sooner rather than later. Ashley sooner rather than later. The markets responding positively in the premarket today. The dow up 330 points. It is a holidayshortened week. No trading tomorrow. We have long weekend coming up. What will that do to the markets . We will get into that. As for oil, up as opec plus meets. We are likely to hear about a deal between the saudis and russians to cut production, although up until now, they havent seen eye to eye. In the next hour, we will hear from fed chair Jerome Powell and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Powell could move the market with his remarks on the economy. A half hour ago, the fed announced 2. 3 trillion in new loans available. That helped offset the neg
With more than 100,000 applications isolate then you have a large family made yesterday alone. And a large number of children, the levels of stress are going to be an ice rink in madrid becomes a temporary mortuary as spains death toll overtakes chinas. Huge. We need clarity, not confusion and we need delivery and not the other. This is an emergency. The truth is the health and economic costs of this virus are deepening by iam i am personally, iam personally, i i am personally, i am volunteering to do some driving. My name is the day. People deserve strong robert. Leadership. A plan for the my name is robert. Self employed is promised tomorrow. It isa and the nhs army of volunteers self employed is promised tomorrow. It is a ghost town, all the staff more than 400,000 people sign up just left. But none of the mps who to help in just 2a hours. Scrutinised it will be here. It is and in sport on bbc news. All options are on the table quite eerie walking to the commons. For rescheduling th
Statistics will tell the story. Look at the eye in the sky with respect to Economic Growth and the performance of this economy under the tax cuts and the regulatory relief. Lowest unemployment in 50 years. Millions of job crease ated. More jobs than we have people to fill them. Historic growth in wages. And more growth on the low end of income spectrum than on the high end. More growth for the worker worker than the supervisor in terms of wage growth. Millions have moved off of out of poverty, off of dependency on government welfare to selfsufficiency. Enjoying the blessing and the dignity of a job. On average, americans are taking home about 5,000 more thanks to tax cuts. By the way, tax revenues are up. Now, politicians can be skewed in their perspective. Distorted. By politics. And so lets ask the American People because quite frankly, mr. Secretary, those are the folks that matter most to me an President Trump and im sure to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Lets find out w
Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin says the administration is working with congress on a spending package for National Coronavirus response. He testified before the house ways and Means Committee on President Trumps 2021 Budget Proposal and was asked about the governments response to the outbreak as well as its Economic Impact. We want to be able to take advantage of the opportunity this morning to give the secretary time for the give and take in the dialogue that were going tome brace here for the next couple of hours. To embrace here for the next couple of hours. Mr. Neal i think we can provide to the first issue so we can get to the chairman. It is of no controversy. So, first, let me call the ways and Means Committee to order. Good morning. Before turning to our hearing this morning. The committees annual budget on views and estimates for fiscal year 2021 in accordance with the requirements of section 301d of the congressional budget act of 1974. Members will find the letter in front
[inaudible] we want to be able to take advantage of the opportunity this morning to give the secretary time for the give and take in the dialogue that were going to embrace here for the next couple of hours. I think we can proceed to the first issue so we can get to the chairman. It is of no controversy. No con. So, first, let me call the ways and Means Committee to order. Good morning. Before turning to our hearing this morning. The committees annual budget on views and estimates for fiscal year 2021 in accordance with the requirements of section 301d of the congressional budget act of 1974. Members will find the letter in front of them. Let me thank Ranking Member brady for working with me on this matter so that we are able to submit a consensus document to the Budget Committee that reflects the priorities of the ways and Means Committee as a whole. Without objection, the views and estimates will be considered as read and open for amendment at any point. And if there are no amendment