A. M. , dr. Joshua gordon, director of the National Incident of Mental Health, on the impact covid19 is having on Mental Health and the nations Mental Health care system. Host democrats plan to vote this week on the 3 trillion financial package. Providing funding for the postal Health Services. Senate republicans are questioning the need for a funding bill. Some culling it aspirational. We will take your calls on it. If you want to comment on the phone lines, its 202 7488000 , mountain and pacific, 202 7488001. You can text the set 202 7488003 text us at 202 or comment onk us facebook. The bill starts out with 500 billion going directly to state governments. 170 5 billion would go to Public Health emergency funds and offer 75 billion for housing assistance, 25 billion for the Postal Service, tribal relief, 10 billion of this new package would go to Small Businesses. 3. 6 billion dollars for the fall election, offering direct each household. The election aspect, the Washington Times hig
He is telling the truth in terms of this is a very difficult situation at best. It will take a long time for the economy to recover and it is tragic for many. He keyed out the 40 of people making less than 40,000 per year losing their jobs in march. A difficult message but a truthful message. Right now the markets appear to be coming to terms with it. In the near term, support is holding. We are still stuck in a range even though it does feel risk off. It is risk off. David tech has given us a break thus far. His tech holding up again . Abigail tech was holding up, you had the faang Index Holding up. Do your point, out of the march lows, tech is up in a big way. The faang index up 20 . To the downside, the financials continue to lag. This year there down 30 . That is 10 of the market. The s p 500, to continue the rally out of the march lows, you will need to see all the sectors get on board, the banks, the industrials, and some of the cyclical sectors are lagging. One reason the banks
The white house. Whats happened to the world and to our country with all of the death. We are going to build our economy back bigger than ever, but with all of that death you could never replace whats taken. Its very sad for a lot of families, you know, so horribly hit and so unnecessary. They could have stopped it. They could have stopped anytime china where it came from. But didnt happen that way. Maria i want to ask you about china, ill get to that. But lets talk about the reopening of america right now. About half of the states have begun this process. Right. Maria is it too soon . There are some calls out there that theyre talking about a relapse in the fall. Is it too soon . So i want them to open when they can, when they want. The governors are opening them. Most of them are either opened or opening or considering it. I think that we have to get back to work. We have to get our country back. We have to take it back. It was artificially closed. I think were doing incredibly well
Massive local tax increases. Anyone of those alone threatens to make this economic crisis even worse and the combination of all three is almost unthinkable. The bureau of labor statistics just reported that state and local governments laid off nearly one million workers in april. That is almost one million firefighters, police officers, teachers, Emergency Personnel that should be on the front lines of the Public Health crisis but are sidelined instead. Chairman powell, let me start by asking, do you agree that our economy will get worse if state and local governments are forced to lay off even more firefighters, teachers, any and Emergency Personnel . Let me say what we are doing. We have a liquidity facility that is there to address the shortterm liquidity needs that these entities have because of their loss of revenue due to the effects of the pandemic. That is really the tool that we have. I appreciate that. That is not my question. States,ion is if counties, and municipalities con
Stalling, the origins of the coronavirus outbreak, this as the white house is still blaming beijing. Elon musk scoring a win in his battle with california really Alameda County getting green light to open alameda factory after orders to stay close. Futures are searching for direction. This after markets gave up early gains over concerns about a possible spike in coronavirus cases, that leading to a selloff yesterday. Uber looking to take over grubhub in possible all stock deal as food demand surges during lockdowns. More controversy in the Michael Flynn case, a federal judge delaying a decision on the Justice Departments move to drop the case against the former National Security adviser. One programming note, tomorrow, do not miss marias sitdown with President Donald Trump. Latest on getting america back to work, more stimulus, china, the 2020 race and a whole lot more, you dont want to miss any moment of it right here starting at 6 00 a. M. Eastern. Meantime mornings with maria is liv