Too close to call come in washington and north dakota. We will get response from naomi. Lein and alicia garza then, as the coronavirus pandemic grows, nurses on the frontlines are holding a national day of action to protest lack of basic protections for nurses and their patients. When something doubles every day, gets to very large number very quickly. So if there are 1000 people infected today, in seven or eight weeks, there can be 64,000 people infected in the state off washington if we dont somehow slow down this epidemic. Amy wellll speak with the president of National Nurses united jean ross. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has deployed the National Guard to new rochelle, a suburb of new york city, ordering a onemile containment zone around a synagogue whose congregation is at the center of the nations biggest single largest coronavirus outbreak. National guard memb
A second look for the long run given these big market swings. So much more ahead on the markets on fast money tonight, but we have to begin with this the developing story out of the white house as new details, merge about President Trumps possible economic stimulus plan to combat a virusled downturn in the economy lets get right now to eamon javers at the white house on how this is all developing right now. Brian, we are half an hour out from a White House Press briefing slated to include the Vice President and the Coronavirus Task force aides throughout the evening last night and the day today have suggested that that could be a place where the president might roll out some of his economic ideas, but we are not hearing that at this point there is no plan as of right now, this moment, a half hour out for the president to attend that briefing. The president said last night that today he would roll out a News Conference to roll out Major Economic initiatives that would be dramatic in sco
Hello, i am david asman, this is bulls and bears, thank you for joining us, joining me, steve moore, caroll roth, capri caforio and john burnett, what progress has been made. Reporter trying to hash out what a economic stimulus package would be, could look like. President , to that end up to capitol hill today, had lunch with Senate Republicans to discuss possible options Going Forward, so far president , and the treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin have talked about following, a payroll tax cut. Potential small be loans, paid leave, deferred tax payment and help for airline, cruise and hotel industry, were told in meeting that president floated idea of bringing down payroll taxes to zero. That would be very both employer and employee. Keep in mind, white house numbers project, over next 12 months, that would be about 1. 2 to 1. 3 trillion in taxes. After the meeting today with Senate Republicans, president tried to provide reassurance. It really working out. A lot of good things are goin
Released recently from the government so you know its one take but were going to look at this take because i think it brings up some good points its a tweet stream from orrin cass hes the executive director of American Compass whose stated mission is to restore an economic consensus that emphasizes the importance of Family Community and industry to the nations liberty and prosperity so there is that heres this 1st tweet im going to read some of them of this 16 thread tweet how is it that our Economic Statistics suggest workers have been making slow but steady progress in recent decades while popular perception is that their Family Finances are coming under increasingly untenable pressure ive been working on this and here is my answer punchline popular perception is correct in 1985 the typical male worker could cover a family of 4 is major expenditures Housing Health care transportation education on 30 weeks of sad. By 2018 it took 53 weeks which is a problem as there are only 52 weeks
Headed by Vice President pence. The Vice President we just completed the Coronavirus Task force. I couldnt be more proud of the men and women of the efforts standing behind me or those standing behind them. President trump said this would be a whole of government approach and today gives evidence of the fact that it is a whole of america approach. We are bringing the whole resources of the federal government and full resources of this great economy and our great business sethor to bear in protecting the American People and american families. A few updates from today. As we continue to expand testing availability across the country. Testing is available at all state labs. There will be four million more tests made available in jurisdictions around the country. One million are already in place thanks to the good work of our top commercial labs that President Trump brought together yesterday. Lab corps and quest are in the process now of distributing and marketing coronavirus tests all ac