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Pressure wont drive our decision making. The science, the data, Public Health will drive our decision making. We set forth a week ago a deep dive on one familiar indicater around testing and tracing, track, issues of isolation and quarantine. Today i want to update you on another indicater specific to businesses, schools and child care facilities. Another indicater specific to businesses, schools and child care facilities. First i want to remind all of you what the six indicaters are. Mentioned testing as one of the principal indicaters, we have made progress in that space. Not nearly where we want to go and need to be but Real Progress we are now see in the space. 578,000 tests have been conducted in the state of california. We averaging over 20,000 tests a day. And we are well on our way to meeting our 25,000 testing goal and getting to 60,000 to 80,000 very shortly thereafter. I mentioned just yesterday optum serve that was doing the endtoend tests, deployed at 80 additional locatio
House budget committee, discusses federal spending and efforts to avoid another government shutdown. And at 9 30, emily martin of the National Womens law discusses efforts to close the gender pay gap. Host political reporting that House Speaker nancy pelosi will meet with Steven Mnuchin to discuss finding ways to avoid budget cuts and raise the debt limit as congress possibly faces another federal shutdown later this year if these issues are not resolved. This is the washington journal for july 10. Part of his political many credit him for the rise of and airdparty system recent poll showed many respondents say the current twoparty system is broken. That is what we want to get your sense of in our first hour of the washington journal. When it comes to the twoparty system, do you think it is broken . Call us and tell us why. If you consider yourself a political independent, 2027488000 is the number to call and everyone else can call at 2027488001. You can post your thoughts on twitter a
the federal budget deficit with the debt campaign president maya mcguiness. a doctor from the johns hopkins school of public health talks about the response to the coronavirus. host: president trump delivers his state of the union tonight. coverage starts at 8:00 this evening. or can watch it on c-span c-span.org. you can listen to it on our free c-span radio app. this is washington journal. the iowa caucuses have concluded with no declared winner. they have held off on doing so until they figure out recording issues. it is not the result of hacking. many of the candidates declared victory of sorts before heading to new hampshire. we will hear from democrats about the state of the recording issues when it comes to the caucuses. what you might think it means for the candidates of your choice. democrats only. (202) 748-8000 for eastern time zones. (202) 748-8001 four mountain and specific pacific time zones. if you want to talk about what happened in your state, (202) 748-800
ultimately there was an expectation the federal deficit would hit $1 trillion. when was that supposed to happen and when did it happen? we ve been expecting for the past couple of years because it is not a surprise. what congress hasn t has been doing is borrowing a lot of money and every year there will be something that will come in just under the trillion dollar mark. we are now in the year where a trillion dollar deficit is hitting up. trillion is a lot of money. largest budgete deficit we ve ever had when the economy was this strong. looking at it as a share of gdp looking at the numbers prayed never when the economy was strong have we had a milestone. describe two people again what deficit is when it comes to the budget. i feel it the lawmakers are kinda forgotten. it s when the company the country doesn t take of money in taxes to pay for the federal spending. oftentimes, i run a nonpartisan group that s worried about balancing the budget pair their time zones