Numbers, another nearly 1. 2 million filing for unemployment last week alone, bringing the total to a staggering 55 million claims since the middle of march. Pressure on food banks soaring with that federal unemployment aid expiring almost a week ago. Concapitol hill, relief bill talks now reaching a make or break moment. The white house and congressional leaders just announcing a meeting this afternoon. President trumps chief of staff mark meadows saying the two sides are still trillions of dollars apart. Were going to have more on the latest, including an update from House Speaker nancy pelosi and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer set for this hour as the pandemic reaches more tragic milestones in this country. Florida becoming the second state with more than 500,000 confirmed cases and the global death toll now reaching more than 700,000. Lets bring in our nbc News Reporters jo ling kent outside a food bank in paramount, california, for more on the new unemployment claim numbers
Serve use category. So what we are trying to do is develop a new Citywide Program to permit retail sales and services from and within the Motor Vehicles on city streets. This stemed from an increasing number of requests asking for permits, people would come into the Small Business Assistance Center and i want to open a truck that sells wigets and we will say sorry you cant sell on the street, what do you mean that people are selling food out of trucks and why cant i do that . We have to tell them that they have a specific process in permitting what you can go through for that and no such process exists i cant help you, think of a different business, not exactly. But that is where things stand currently. Some people are doing that, without a permit. But these folks are trying to do the right thing and come in and get their business, vetted and regulated so they can get up and running. So, as you probably know from your personal experience, the mobile concept is sort of emerging in a lot
The cap on this particular initiative. We do have to realize that there are over 40 million americans who do not speak english as their first language this tiny program demonstrates to the American People that we have equal protection under the law regardless of whether people are englishspeaking or Spanish Speaking or speak some other language. Given the tiny amount of money thats involved here, this program has been extraordinarily effective. Almost 30,000 people benefited from a program that cost this federal government only 300,000. I ask that you consider the value of this program to every Community Across america and i urge them to accept this amendment as they did last year. I yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from florida. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The amendment depreed to. Is agreed to. The clerk
Traffic controllers, yet they are working exclusively for the union at the taxpayers expense. In fiscal year 2011, the most recent year for which we have official time data, the department of transportation spent more than 17 million on official time. In the same year, the department of housing and urban development spent more than 2 million on official time. Across the entire federal government more than three million official time hours were used in collective bargaining or arbitration of grievances against an employer who, by the way, is us, in fiscal year 2011. These Union Activities were performed at taxpayer expense to the tune of 155 million for the same time period. While we are not voting on veterans funding today, it is timely, given recent events, to mention the impact that the use of official time has on the department of veterans affairs. The v. A. Is one of the largest abusers of official time, spending more than 42. 5 million on this cost in fiscal year 2011. In 2012, mo
Give taken a particular interest. You go there lots a what draws you up there . A couple of things. Canada as in northern nation. That is what, one of the things that makes us distinct from the United States. Whereas in canada, the United States, you say go west to find your identity. In this country, it has always been go north. That is the part of the country that defines our identity and has so much promise in terms of its abundant resources. I do want to say this one of the things we tried to do as a government, with some success, is we come to office with two views but too often in the past, were seeing. One is that this government is extremely proamerican. The valiant the relationship with the United States. We could not be in a better situation than to have the United States as our only real labor, closest economic partner and oldham of the allied. And ally. At the same time, were Strong Canadian nationalists and think in our own modest way. We see no incompatibility with that.