Politico is hosting in the coming weeks, journalists from across the newsroom. If you have any questions for representative ocasiocortez, you can tweet them and we will try to get to them at the end of our conversation. Before she joins us in a few minutes, lets set the stage for where we are today. And number of weeks into the corona pandemic. You are in your house, i am in my, it is different from a lot of the live events we have done. Made we can break it down in terms of what is happening at the white house and on capitol hill. And this effort to try to figure out when the u. S. Can reopen for business. Jake welcome to my living room or my office. Veryportant important things to think about. The white house in the midst of rolling out a counsel with which the president will decide by what mechanism and went to open the economy and his estimation economy, which wasnt a good position before the coronavirus, and the president wants to get it back in a good position. The president s fo
Working families in the commonwealth and around this country. He has been working diligently on the cares act that was recently passed. He is going to talk to us about that today. And we cant wait to hear about it. Were so thrilled also to have Stephanie Murray here with us today. Readl open our inbox and stephanie on politico playbook first thing every morning. Stephanie, thank you for being here. Aboutd go on and on chairman neil and im not going to because i want to kick it over now to hear from him and hear from stephanie and thank you all for joining us today via zoom. Stephanie good afternoon. Thank you so much to the Kennedy Institute and for everyone who is joining us this afternoon. In q2 congressman neal for being so generous with your time. My name is Stephanie Murray. Im the author of the political massachusetts playbook. It is my pleasure to be here, especially to kick off this new version of the institute form as we get used to our live online. Im glad to be here with you
Challenges related to voting in the primaries. Mr. Sherman these briefings are among events politico is hosting. We are going to get right to our conversation with the chairman, but we would love to answer your questions. Pleased with your questions and we will try to get to them. Ms. Palmer lets get started. Thank you so much for joining us. Right now oncused the coronavirus pandemic. We are coming from our own respective homes. There is a lot of focus on washingtons response. How do you grade the federal response so far . Has been the response one of gross incompetence. It is an utter failure of leadership. This president knew around the first of the year that this was a pandemic in the making. Because he is always so concerned about himself, and he wants to be the center of attention, he ignored the advice of professionals like dr. Fauci. Those eight weeks that were lost during this. Of time were eight presses precious weeks the cost lives. The absence of preparedness on getting tes
The defenseliams on act and its use in the government. On this boat, the yaeah the bill is passed. Host good morning the Senate Approved a third economic aid package with a price tag of 2. 2 trillion dollars and it goes to the house for a vote scheduled on friday. And then, to the president s desk. We will get your thoughts on action to respond. 202737,000 you can text us with your first name, 2027488003e at or join the conversation on twitter and facebook. Let us begin with the action in the house. , democrat ofleader maryland sent a letter out to the rank and file members saying that the house will convene at 9 00 a. M. On friday to consider the bill in order to protect the safety of members and staff and prevent further threat, the republican leader and i expect the houseboat will be done by voice house vote will be done by voice vote. Members who want to come to the floor will be able to do so. We are working to ensure that those who are not able to return to washington may express