600 200 for the public and plan includes Business Owners tax credits and Liability Protections for, 19 issues. While we wait for issues to return to the floor a look at jobless benefits. Director of economic policies for the bipartisan Policies Center here to talk about an appointment in the coronavirus pandemic. Republicans yesterday evening unveiling a one chilean dollar Coronavirus Relief package and at the heart of the debate has been these enhanced federal autumn plummet benefits where Congress Passed back in march with extra 600 a week for republicans are now saying they need to reduce debt to around 200 a week. Explain whoo was getting this enhanced federal benefits to begin with . Sure, on appointment insurance was a program that is around any economic circumstances in the United States but in the current pandemic, Congress Expanded the program significantly when the past the cares act this spring. Cures act had about over 2 trillion in federal spending, a lot went to enhancing
Have live members of congress who will speak. I thank you for joining us. We have another halfdozen senators and representatives with record remark we will play once we are done. This is the 20 eighth edition of the congressional pics and follows two days after the Congressional Budget Office, and 854 billion, the record was 234 billion in the 864 billion would be the sixthlargest annual deficit. Since the supposedly earmarked moratorium, members of congress have set a record for the amount of spending according to citizens against government waste cry to which we develop back in 1991 with the bipartisan congressional pork busters coalition. The amount spent was 15. 9 billion, a 3. 0 increase in fiscal year 2019. The numbers may adopt a little bit from 282, two to extend for, decrease of 2. 8 . Since this league in 1991, cagw has identified 111,417 earmarks costing taxpayers 375. 7 billion so yes, those little projects due at up over time. The increase in porkbarrel spending occurred b
A tough National Security law. Back on the streets demanding the president steps down protests resume in mali after Regional Mediation fails the entire villages are under water with millions affected by the worst flooding to hit china in decades. And im peter some of the new sports news and as expected weve just heard that cricket t 20 world cup has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. So we begin with the fight against covert 19 which has taken a small but potentially significant step this monday the Lancet Medical Journal has published results from scientists at Oxford University who have been conducting early human testing for a Coronavirus Vaccine and the results are encouraging they found a vaccine did not cause any serious side effects and produced a strong immune response this is one of 5 vaccines showing positive results a joint effort between Oxford University and the company astra zeneca testing and large numbers in the u. K. As well as south africa and brazil
Begin to run out. Republican leaders met with President Trump as the party tries to get on the same page. I think i know what the final package will look like. Well discuss later with mattie duppler, plus . I am a believer in masks. Masks are good. But i leave it up to the governors. Charles President Trump is open to wearing of masks in a wideranging Fox News Sunday interview and were live at the Trump Campaign headquarters with reaction. That and much more on making money. Charles so now all your indices look like theyre trying to turn positive right now as we begin the week. Increased anxiety no doubt about it, but also resumption of the growth trade taking the lead. We saw second concerted effort to get the socalled value names to rally. The result was actually fantastic. We saw strong performances in industrial names, material names. Moreover, those gains actually came at the expense of technology and Communications Services names. Although friday we saw that reversal begin to cha
The first case that we will argue stay is down from versus the usa. Mr. Chief justice, the subpoenas at issue here are unprecedented in every sense. No court hadcases, ever upheld the use of Congress Passed subpoena power. Had toittee of congress the records of a sitting president with a broad swath of the president s personal papers to the let alone purpose of the a potential legislation. There is a reason this is the first time a set has attempted such a gambit. Because, grist has subpoena power, it is subordinate and when that power is deployed against the president , it must yield absent any longstanding tradition or compelling showing of need. The committees consent is neither condition and that should decide this case. The committees contend the subpoenas satisfy the limits this court has always applied to congressional subpoenas. But the arguments would render those limits meaningless. But the arguments would render those limits meaningless. They claim congress can you subpoenas