They can to minimize the spread of covid19 among workers and detainees. For fiscal year 2020 congress appropriated approximately 3. 1 billion for more than 45000 single adults and family ice detention beds and other custody operations. Over 80 of these beds are operating daily by private contractors and some of whom are at this hearing today. That is a large amount of taxpayer money, money a historically high number of detention beds and demands oversight and accountability. Detention facilities must be held to a High Standard at all times but in this moment it is a vital importance. Yet, over the past few months it is clear that ice in its contractor had not taken this a break seriously and have not treated it aggressively enough. More than 3000 detainees, 280 contractors and at least 45 ice employees assigned to detention facilities have now test positive for covid19. Sadly, we have watched as two detainees a potential third today in the state of florida and contractors due to convoc
And update now on new york States Coronavirus response. Governor andrew cuomo outlined the States School reopening guidelines and talked about president trumps approach to schools as well as the overall federal pandemic response. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. A pleasure to be here this morning. Beautiful new york city. To my left with dr. James whos been working on among other things the School Reopening plan and hes here to talk to us about that today. To my right, melissa, secretary to the governor. To her right rick cotton was the head of the Board Authority whos been doing an extraordinary job overall, building laguardia airport, first newport and the United States in 25 years, redoing john f. Kennedy airport and then if that wasnt enough he had to do was something called covid which obviously impacted the airports and were were so lucky to havm and want to thank you very much for everything he has been doing. This morning were going to
We now leave this program to get you alive briefing of 40 governor ron desantis. Good afternoon i want to think Carlos Mcguire for hosting us in jackson and thank you to mayor carlos and manus to all the work he has done over many months working closely with us in the state government. We came to jackson and i think early march when this pandemic was really starting to pick up steam, at that point i dont know if miamidade had a case, positive, maybe a couple but it was obviously much different than what were finding here. [shouting] over 4000 people have died, you have no plans and youre doing nothing. Shame on you. At that time when we had when we were here we had a whole bunch of concerns about what would end up happening in the next few weeks and months craig we had concerns about testing, we were able to get test, we were not able to get test for all the people who needed them at the time, in fact there were probably hundreds of tests being conducted today statewide and nationally
And a half months before the election. Give us the political lay of the land in joe biden and president donald trump. Jon biden has an advantage, steve. The democrats have a formidable machine. They won the president ial race the last three cycles. Hillary clinton beat donald trump by two other half points, although that was closer than it looked because the race was over by early voting, which lasts two weeks, and the democrats had banked enough votes. Biden is ahead in polls, only slightly outside the margin of error in recent polling. There has not been a lot of public polling. The democrats have a substantial registration advantage, which they have for many years, including 154,000 voters or so in clark county, where las vegas is, 70 of the vote. Very difficult for a republican to win statewide in nevada with that firewall the democrats have in clark county. Steve it seems so long ago, the nevada caucuses in which senator Bernie Sanders won with 40 of the democratic vote. Many peop
Now in april this year the Federal Reserve bank in new york reported that minority and women owned businesses are significantly more likely to show signs of limited Financial Health and more likely to be classified as at risk for distress the nonminority Small Businesses. Further companies are three times likely as Healthy Business to close because of a two month the ppps program established under the cares act and administered by the Small Business administration and treasury for distress with responded to the covid19 pandemic. Recent analysis of the color of change in the United States found only one in ten africanamerican owned businesses received the requested funds through the program. I have heard from many a minority owned businesses who did everything right, they did not give a low number or loan in the first round, many minority businesses share the enhancement act was not adequately designed to enhance or assist Small Businesses. Thank you to the partnership of the Financial