You miss any of our live coverage of the governments response to the coronavirus outbreak, watch it any time at cspan. Org coronavirus. From daily briefings by the president and the White House Task force to updates from the hardest hit states, it is all there. Use the maps to track the viru and track cases county by county. It is an easy way to watch cspans unfiltered coverage of this pandemic. Our first guest of the morning joins us from washington, d. C. , the editor of health care dive to talk about the state of hospitals during the coronavirus outbreak. Good morning to you. You. Guest good morning. Host a little bit about healthcare dive to begin with, what is it . Guest it is an online publication, and every morning the newsletter comes out gear towards health care tives with stories and analysis they need to know. Letters, one more focused on insurance companies, and the others are on health issues. Host since this goes to executives, i imagine many executives are on the boards
Something after i go through and we will take questions. These are individuals who are rankers on a lot of different committees. Even though we are not in washington right now, i want to let you know that we continue to work through. There is a lot of work happening with our response to this virus, and i want to walk you back through, remind everybody of the three major bills that we have passed to help defeat this virus. First we passed the 8. 3 billion formergency funding, testing, treatment, and telehealth. Telehealth is very important as we go through to combat this. Second, we passed the Families First Coronavirus Response act, which included extending sick and family leave. It included free coronavirus testing, and last week, even though the democrats had held that bill up, unfortunately, i know a number of people probably had been laid off simply because that was held up too late, how fast we could move, we passed the largest relief package in american history, 2. 2 trillion. Sm
Thats what you see going on today, issues that are taken on are the likes of boeing and disney and exxon mobil with oil week and oil related issues and services are taking on as well. Earlier on i told you in the week whats happening in the front and of the socalled yield curve when one in three month bills were returning negative rates, if you want to park your money at a bank in a negative rate environment, your to pay the bank for the privilege of hanging on tour your dough, that is no longer the phenomenon right now as yields have turned positive on the shorterterm security. There was a flipside to the argument and theres less then a reason to move over to stocks. If there are no more negative, they are very, very low, they are extremely low but bottom line they are better than where they were. Lets get to read from hilary vaughn, the relief package coming from the house of representatives. They had some yelling and screaming going into this but their intense abating about in a pas
With Speaker Nancy Pelosi and republican leader kevin mccarthy. We want to send a message that like many families, we have are differences but we also know what is important for us and americans families are important for us so we are so pleased today to be able to have passed on the floor, practically unanimously, this important bill cares. We want to demonstrate that we do care for the American People in every way. We are so honored to have the distinguished republican leader of the house with us today. I was honored to work with him in a very bipartisan way as this went along. Again, having her disagreements but also knowing our purpose. Hehat, i want to yield called you the majority leader and im calling you the democratic leader. [laughter] in any event, the distinct republican leader of the house, the office is right there and you see the sign. Kevin mccarthy from california. Thank you, madam speaker. A belated happy birthday to you. To the american public, we hear you and we are
And that now goes to President Trump for his signature. To all of the healthcare care workers working to bring solace and administer to the needs of people who need their help, to the families who have lost a loved one. We want to send a message to them that our hearts are full of love, americas hearts are full of love with them and we are all a family. Like many families, we have our differences, but we also know what is important to us. Americas families are important for us, so we are so pleased today to be able to have passed on the floor practically unanimously, thes this important bill, cares, and we want to demonstrate that we do care for the american people. We are honored to have the distinguished republican leader of the house with us today, i was honored to work with him in a bipartisan way as we went along. Again, having our disagreements but also, knowing our purpose. With that, i want to yield to distinguished democratic leader youxcuse me, he is calling the majority lead